ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks be to God, Who is the Instigator of all ideas worth pursuing! You are my Source! Thank you Dearly Beloved, kids and grandkids, family. I could not do this without your encouragement and support. Thank you for believing in me. Friends and prayer warriors—thank you. It’s the people who surround me in love and prayer, that help birth the words that touch a reader’s heart. Thank you readers. Thank you for your encouragement—it keeps me on this sometimes very rocky road of writing, gets me past the moments of self-doubt. Thank you for your interest, your questions, suggestions. When you ask, “How’s the book coming,” and I get this look of sheer panic, that’s a good thing! Keeps me on deadline. Thank you, Kathy Tyers Gillin, my editor. I shake my head at what I put y

