Get Your Greater

The Winner of a Fall 2023 BookFest Personal Memoir Honorable Mention

Raw and real. Get Your Greater is the true story of Mark Shepard going from grate to great. After losing his mother before the age of 10 in a horrific act of violence, Mark's story continues with suffering mistreatment from his family, getting assaulted while in foster care, and later striving to survive poverty and homelessness living on the streets with his young sons. Get Your Greater tells an inspiring story of resilience, strength, ambition, and faith as Mark goes from sleeping on a cold bed of metal bars to leading a life filled with love and gratefulness.

Homelessness was no stranger. Pulling himself up from the lowest of lows as a homeless teen and later as a grown man living on the streets of Washington, D.C., Mark escaped the unimaginable. His strength has helped him navigate a life filled with trauma, abandonment, sexual abuse, and physical cruelty. He shares how to build resilience as he recounts personal and poignant accounts that will leave you completely speechless. Get Your Greater reveals mercilessness that no child should ever feel... ordeals that no humanshould have to experience... yet Mark faced and ultimately overcame with strength and psychological resilience.

Get Your Greater celebrates the movement of God through Mark's life-a movement that although always steady-would, at times, feel slow and require blind faith. And now Mark encourages you to have the same faith. The same ambition in life. To never give up. To be resilient, patient, and steadfast. When you read Get Your Greater, you learn that despite the path or personal trials of your life, there is a greater waiting for you. And all that's left? Go get it