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This Life I Live: One Man's Extraordinary, Ordinary Life and the Woman Who Changed It Forever Kindle Edition

by Rory Feek (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

Her story. His story. The love story of Joey and Rory.

By inviting so many into the final months of Joey’s life as she battled cancer, Joey and Rory Feek captured hearts around the world with how they handled the diagnosis; the inspiring, simple way they chose to live; and how they loved each other every step of the way. But there is far more to the story.

“My life is very ordinary,” says Rory. “On the surface, it is not very special. If you looked at it, day to day, it wouldn’t seem like much. But when you look at it in a bigger context—as part of a larger story—you start to see the magic that is on the pages of the book that is my life. And the more you look, the more you see. Or, at least, I do.”

In this vulnerable book, he takes us for the first time into his own challenging life story and what it was like growing up in rural America with little money and even less family stability.

This is the story of a man searching for meaning and security in a world that offered neither. And it’s the story of a man who finally gives it all to a power higher than himself and soon meets a young woman who will change his heart forever.

In This Life I Live, Rory Feek helps us not only to connect more fully to his and Joey’s story but also to our own journeys. He shows what can happen when we are fully open in life’s key moments, whether when meeting our life companion or tackling an unexpected tragedy. He also gives never-before-revealed details on their life together and what he calls “the long goodbye,” the blessing of being able to know that life is going to end and taking advantage of it. Rory shows how we are all actually there already and how we can learn to live that way every day.

A gifted man from nowhere and everywhere in search of something to believe in. A young woman from the Midwest with an angelic voice and deep roots that just needed a place to be planted. This is their story. Two hearts that found each other and touched millions of other hearts along the way.

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Rory Feek is a true renaissance man, known as one of Nashville’s premiere songwriters, entrepreneurs, and out-of-the-box thinkers. He is a world-class storyteller, crossing all creative mediums, from music and film to books and the Internet, and is the New York Times bestselling author of This Life I Live.

As a blogger, Rory shares his heart and story with the world through thislifeilive.com and has more than two million Facebook followers. As a songwriter, Rory has written multiple number-one songs. As an artist, he is half of the Grammy-winning county music duo Joey + Rory. He and his wife, Joey Martin, toured the world and sold hundreds of thousands of records. As a filmmaker, Rory wrote and filmed the touching documentary To Joey, With Love and directed the upcoming feature-length film Josephine, an epic love story set during the declining months of the Civil War.

Rory and his youngest daughter, Indiana, live an hour south of Nashville in an 1870s farmhouse near their family-owned diner, Marcy Jo’s Mealhouse.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas Nelson (February 14, 2017)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 14, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2232 KB
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My name is Rory. I wear overalls most all of the time, but I’m not a farmer... yet. I love old cars, old farmhouses, old people, and pretty much anything nostalgic or that has character. I’m 51 years old on the outside and in my mid 20′s down deep. I am a believer who’s dreams have taken me places I’ve never imagined. I’m also a Believer, that has a long long way to go. I want to live a great story. I want to be a better man. I film. I write. I show up. God does the rest.

My wife: I am married to the greatest woman that I’ve ever known. Her name is Joey. She has the voice of an angel and the heart of a saint. She is why I’m me. We have been married almost 14 years and God has given us an incredible love story. Not just how we began.. but now, today... even without her here by my side. That love story is still unfolding as our hold our little one's had and turn the pages. I want to out-love and out-serve my wife, but it is impossible.

My children: I have two daughters, no wait… I have three daughters. Our two oldest, Heidi and Hopie are grown and making their way in this world. Our youngest, Indiana, is two years old and she helps me to make sense of this world. Indy has down syndrome. I think Hopie has up syndrome (she’s always happy). Heidi’s got film and music syndrome (she’s an aspiring filmmaker and singer/songwriter). All my children are good and perfect gifts from above.

My life: I live on a small farm about an hour south of Nashville Tennessee. We have two horses, some chickens, cats and a dog named Ranger. Joey and I spent the last eight years making music, traveling all over the world singing and performing for people, making a television show at home and working hard on our dreams. We took a year off in 2014 to search for something better. To simplify, and be with our family and friends, and to homestead. We don’t have a television and don’t want one. For a year, we traded our iPhones in for flip-phones and starting to talk to people again. We love our life.

My blog: I’m a songwriter who isn’t writing songs right now, so Joey encouraged me to write about our lives instead. So at the beginning of 2014, I started blogging about and filming the little and big moments in our life as they happened.. I didn’t know why at the time. I do now.

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TwinMom
5.0 out of 5 stars Caution: If you read this book in public, you may embarrass yourself.
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2018
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I'm a military officer and a mom. I'm not a crier...or so I thought. This book, however, made me the crazy woman on the airplane with tears and who knows what else rolling down her face clutching a balled-up Kleenex while blowing my nose loudly. I'm sure my seatmate thought it sounded equivalent to a ship coming into port rather than just another commuter flight to Dallas.

The first point to be made- don't read this book in public unless you are sure you will never see those people again. Second point - it isn't surprising that Rory Feek is as gifted a storyteller as he is a songwriter. This book is open, honest, raw, and painful. Rory discusses his life before meeting his wife, Joey, and takes the reader through his childhood, first marriage and children, and subsequently his life with Joey and her death. Rory shares his story, warts and all, in an insightful and honest manner that really connected me to this book.

At times, I felt myself being critical of the choices Rory and Joey made. I asked myself, "Didn't she get prenatal care?," "why no genetic testing based on her age?" and "Ughh, enough about God, already." Then I realized that asking these questions was missing the entire point of the book - which is the strength of standing by one's convictions and beliefs, even when life gets rough. For Joey and Rory, it didn't matter what might have been or could have gone wrong with Joey's pregnancy. They firmly believed their baby (named Indiana) was the baby they were meant to have. They were walking the path they were meant to walk. They lived their life according to their own belief and convictions, and they were happy. Rory is not looking for affirmation or sympathy in writing this book - he is living his truth. As a writer and person, he ended up inspiring me.
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Laura Lee Sims
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute love and delight!
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2017
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I wish I could choose greater than "5 stars" for this phenomenonal book!! I would choose 10 stars! :) This epic God-Love-Life story could only be orchestrated by a very Sovereign, Loving, and Merciful God! There are SO many parallels in this story to God's redeeming love for mankind, as God Himself took the greatest risk of Love for us by sending His one & only, Beloved Son Jesus Christ to live, love, suffer, and ultimately die a brutal, criminal's death to SAVE US. I see that same dynamic interwoven into each real and honest word that makes up the story, the love, and the life that is Joey + Rory. God lives right between them, and death can never separate Him and them and us. What a privilege for us to witness God work in real-time, using the beautiful and willing "instruments" of His choosing, to further reveal to us His constant love and choice to save us! I am blown away by each word Rory
has written, words that make me laugh and cry and smile and sometimes all at the same time!! I love the heart and humility behind the man and woman to be able to even have this story, and to have it change the world. I am and always have been an avid reader, and in my 39 years I have never read a story, fiction or nonfiction, that reflects more deeply into the deepest and most vulnerable places in the heart and soul of humanity. In order to do that, one has to be growing deeply inside the beautiful and mysterious Heart of our Master Gardener- our Father. If God's heart were a vegetable garden, Joey + Rory's seeds were carefully chosen and planted long ago. I can only imagine God's delight when He sees that all the years of waiting, watering, weeding and pruning- all the work of His Hands, have managed to produce a 10-fold crop that gives life to all who partake of it! :) God bless this man Rory, his wife Joey, and Heidi, Hopie, and their "pretty little Indiana". ❤❤❤ Thank you for providing new purpose, hope, and life-giving inspiration to my life today!!!
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Lisa Kearns
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest and heartwarming, sad and hopeful - an excellent read!
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017
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I became a fan of Joey & Rory some years ago, when Youtube pulled up a random suggestion for "Cheater, Cheater!". I was hooked right away by their old fashioned country sound, and purchased a CD. Then I discovered Rory's blog, which told the sad tale of Joey's cancer battle and eventual death. I've been listening to their "Hymns" album in the kitchen for months, and was thrilled to hear that it won a Grammy - well deserved! Then I watched the movie "To Joey With Love" and eagerly awaited this book's release on Valentine's Day.

I read the book in one day, and absolutely loved it. Rory is brutally honest about his past, with all the ugly, shameful, hurtful parts. Not one of us can say we haven't done things to be ashamed of, but few people are so honest about it.

Meeting Joey changed Rory's life, and the story between the pages of this book are a testament to their deep faith and deep love. Rory is honest about the times they struggled as a couple, and how past experiences and baggage cause problems between even the most loving couple. In the end, this is a love story for Rory's bride. Reading the desolation in his words made me cry, knowing that he and his girls will have to find a way to go on without her.

Most of all, I enjoyed reading about Rory's growing faith. I know in my own life, God has worked miracles that sometimes I can't see until years or decades later. Despite his loss of Joey, Rory believes that God has plans for all of us and that we have to trust.

I hope Rory will write another book some day, to update J&R fans on his and his daughters' lives.
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Diane Koerper
5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2023
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I enjoyed listening to them sing and seeing them on the Gaither show. It was sad to see her life ended at such a young age, but she was a real trooper thoughout the cancer bout. I read Rory's blog telling about their daughter, Indiana.
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Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars Love it!
Reviewed in Canada on June 23, 2021
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I first found out about them from the Gaither Gospel Hour when they were performing songs from their album, Hymns that Are Important to Us. Joey said that those songs gave her strength when she was going through cancer treatments. When she stood on stage and performed songs from that album, she didn't have that much energy because of the chemo and radiation, but she was at peace. She wanted to spend the last few months of her life at home in hospice care. And she did. It wasn't the story that they were expecting, but they were happy. Joey and Rory have a little daughter Indiana who has Down Syndrome. She was only 2 when her mama passed away, so she doesn't remember her, not really. Rory has told bits and pieces of his story in interviews, but this book will give readers a chance to know the whole story. They lived in a beautiful 1800s farmhouse, about an hour south of Nashville. I listen to their music on YouTube, and the music is all we have left of Joey. She had a beautiful voice. She really was a gift from God. On March 4th, 2016, Joey went on to be with the Lord. She's no longer in pain. And now Rory is raising Indiana on his own. Indiana knows where her mama is, and she can pick her out of a crowd of people, and she knows her voice. I never really new the story of Rory growing up with little to no family stability. I read his blog posts too. Their love story is rare these days. He stayed by her side right until the very end. And that's the definition of being a husband and wife. My favorite song by them is “That`s Important To Me.”
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James Barry
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book and well written
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2022
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Beautiful book and well written
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Douglas Moore
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in Germany on March 6, 2021
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Dilvery was fast
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars This life I live
Reviewed in Spain on March 26, 2017
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Es la simple historia de un hombre en la que narra cómo va descubriendo las cosas que verdaderamente importan en la vida. Es extraordinario la evolución y la madurez que va adquiriendo en la medida que va viendo los acontecimientos de su vida en perspectiva y como descubre la sabiduría más grande a la que podemos llegar: fiarse y abandonarse en Dios.
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マッチョ
4.0 out of 5 stars 運命の人との出会い
Reviewed in Japan on March 20, 2018
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赤裸々に語った紆余曲折の人生、そしてその後に出遭った運命の人との愛情と信頼に包まれた美しい日々に感動しました。
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