Minutes after losing her job, Louise Lewis sat in the boarding area of a California airport and began to panic. Weak and vulnerable, she asked God for guidance, and she says his reply was, "This is just another chapter in your life. You hold the pen, I'll guide your hand, and together we'll write one hell of a chapter." Lewis' resulting spiritual journey and search for a life of new meaning is chronicled in her new inspirational book, "No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You!"

iUniverse, Inc. (2007)
ISBN 9780595429714
Reviewed by Lori Plach for Reader Views (10/07) 


Losing a job has probably happened to everyone at least once in their lifetime.  Do you see losing your job as devastating or an opportunity to discover something different in your life?  It all depends on how you look at it.  Louise Lewis had lost her job of eleven years. There were all the emotional and financial concerns to get through.  She had a mortgage which required payment and needed to get back on her feet again.  Where do you go for comfort when a blow like this one gets delivered to you?

Louise decides to embrace life and find out just what life means.  Through many interviews with people and getting their definitions of life, a book is born. Sometimes people are brought into our life for just a time and for a specific purpose. There is comfort in the scriptures as noted many times throughout the text of this book.

“No Experts Needed” is more than just a book in dealing with job loss.  It is a book of self-discovery, insights into what life is, and how to make the most of every opportunity as it is presented. The book doesn't bring out the expert's advice, but rather everyday people who share what they believe, and how they face the bumps along the road of life. If you catch yourself wondering just what life means, you can come to your own decisions.  There are truly “no experts needed” when making life what you want it to be.