Hugh Prather

 
For more than thirty years, Hugh Prather has counseled couples, families in crisis, battered women and their abusers, and grieving parents who have lost children. Currently a resident minister at St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church, Prather lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, Gayle, and is the proud father of three sons.

Hugh became a publishing phenomenon when his first book, Notes to Myself, was released in 1970. Since then, the book has sold more than five million copies and been translated into 10 languages. Published by a small company, with little advertising or promotion, it has inspired and comforted readers throughout the world.

  

  

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Very seldom will people give up on themselves. They continue to have hope because they know that they have the potential for change. They try again--not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in themselves that will make their lives worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Hugh Prather