... 'll live larger than life. Why do people make so little of their lives? The Spirit wants you to make so much of your life. The Spirit wants to help you make so much of your life. In short, the Spirit gives people a talent for life. Marilynne Robinson has written only two novels. But her most recent one entitled Gilead (2004) received the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2005. The story is of a dying Iowa preacher in his 70s who is writing reminiscences about life for a son he will never really get to know ...