Be the Sunshine: Reflections on faith, family, and finding the light in every season

Some seasons take everything. This one gave her voice back.In Be the Sunshine, Dr. Stella Uribe Stevens gathers eight years of reflections into one warm, honest collection — on faith and doubt, on growing up in small-town South Texas, on the eighties and Aqua Net and first heartbreaks, on the long road of caring for aging parents, on losing her mother, and on the quiet, stubborn work of choosing the light anyway.Written in the unguarded voice of a woman talking to you across her kitchen table, these short pieces move from laughter to grief and back again — the way real life does. One chapter has you smiling over rotary phones, Pac-Man, and big eighties hair; the next sits beside you in the dark and reminds you that you are not alone there.This is a book for anyone in the middle of a hard season:the caregiver running on emptythe daughter or son learning to parent their own parentsthe griever who just lost the person who made themand the woman quietly trying to find her way back to herselfWhatever season you're walking through, Stella has the same word for you: we are all sunshine — and it matters to be the sunshine in someone's life, starting with your own.A retired educator and lifelong maker from the brush country between Laredo and Corpus Christi, Dr. Stella Uribe Stevens writes about faith, family, grief, and grace. Be the Sunshine is her first collection — short enough to read in stolen moments, deep enough to stay with you long after.Pull up a chair. You are not alone in your season. Read more