Grace in Deep Waters

For my parents—thankfully you are nothing like William and Blanche. Thank you for your model of how to follow Jesus, your love, and your decades of prayer. I am blessed to be your daughter. As missionaries, part of the cost for you was boarding school for us children. Thank you to the many other parents who looked after me at Chefoo School and Faith Academy. My heavenly Father taught me much through each of you. And in memory of my grandfather, Robert Reginald McCredie (1910-1994). Potter and master craftsman. I thought of you often as I wrote the scenes in the workshop with Reg. I wish I’d had the courage to ask you to teach me woodwork.