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Jul 2008 Issue
by Dean Hughes
Whether it’s our careers, sporting events or the kind of car we drive, life can at times seem like it’s a contest. The Cost of Winning (Deseret Book, $17.95, Softcover) by Dean Hughes, asks whether we are all trying to come in first across the wrong finish line by defining success in the world’s terms instead of Christ’s.
Hughes has published more than 90 books but is best known for his series Children of the Promise and Hearts of the Children. In a departure from such historical fiction novels, The Cost of Winning is a book of insightful and often humorous observations about life.
“When I stand before the Lord to answer for my life,” he writes, “I’m certain that He is going to ask me a very different set of questions from the ones the world asks me. It seems important during life, to ‘win’ at all sorts of contests: better job, bigger house, more important church calling, children with greater achievements. But I think the Lord will want to know whether I was kind and humble and whether I looked out for people in need.”
The Cost of Winning—Coming in First Across the Wrong Finish Line by Dean Hughes is available at Deseret Book and DeseretBook.com.
