299: Cassandra Smith: Picking Up The Letters Left For God
b'Todays guest on Join Up Dots is a lovely lady who has a wonderful mission in her life.\\nShe wants to bring hope, passion and enthusuisam to those kids who feel that life is a place of darkness and where they have nothing in front of them but a certain and bleak future.\\nThrough her first book Letters to God: Diary of an Unsilenced Generation, she raises awareness of the plight of hurting teens, the struggles they face, and how to promote hope in their young, often broken, lives.\\nAnd what makes this publication more powerful is that these are not all words that she has written herself, but Letters to God is a compilation of handwritten notes gathered at youth events around the nation.\\nThese are true life tales of hurt and despair, which highlight the honest real life struggles that the youth of the world face.\\nBut its not just the darkness that these book has brought to the world, as within every chapter our guest brings her experience of tackling these issues head on, with great insight which has been widely praised across America.\\nA resource for friends, parents, family and the sufferers themselves.\\nSo what was it that made our guest focus her attention and passions on a problem which is so wide spread and difficult to tackle?\\nAnd does she feel that her movement is just the start of something that ultimately will be bigger than herself and the others that follow her.\\nWell lets find out as we bring onto the show, to start joining up dots, with the one and only Cassandra Smith'