“More than anything, I wanted my life to matter …” When Shane Stanford discovered he was HIV positive twenty years ago, he knew he had a choice: he could feel sorry for himself, or he could live as faith-fully and boldly as possible. In A Positive Life, Shane offers nine basic yet powerful lessons for living well, all found within the life and ministry of Jesus. As Shane has discovered, even a difficult road offers glimpses of grace. Choosing how to live out that grace is the key to making life matter―and to being more alive than ever before. “The positive life is not about achieving but about becoming. To understand this is to understand the whole journey.” At the age of sixteen, Shane Stanford contracted HIV from procedures used to treat hemophilia.