A Matter of Grace

My journey as a book coach/ghostwriter/publisher has brought me down some interesting paths. Each project brings with it a certain sense of fate, as if the person I'm working with and I have a date with destiny. Of the dozen or more books I've helped bring into the world, that sense of the unseen hand guiding me to someone was never more apparent than when I met Trudy Gronning in 2015. She'd grown up in Munich when it was under the rule of Hitler during WWII. She'd witnessed terrible things, endured the death of her beloved father, who was a renowned violinist, and the horrors of The "Night of Shattered Glass," commonly known as Kristallnacht. She battled MS since her mid-20s and was a single mom back when that was a serious liability as a German living in post-war America.  Trudy's life was a testament to faith and her belief that tomorrow would be better than today. After two years of work, her book "A Matter of Grace" was published in 2017 when she was 88 years young, and we became very close friends during the process. I was saddend to hear the news that Trudy Gronning has passed away at the age of 96. This tribute/rememberance episode features audio from some of our most intimate conversations about her incredible life.  Godspeed my dear friend.