JESSIE: The Wait of the Wood - Foreword

This particular telling of the tale of Jesse’s journey is dedicated to my father, whose simple life serves as a grand example of that noble purpose and calling. And the powerful patience needed sometimes to wait… and listen… to finally hear and follow that purpose and calling.

Loving thanks as well to my wife Diann, daughters Emily and Hannah, and my sons Leo and Nicholas. It is through their lives that I have experienced my noble purpose and calling, time and again.

And finally, a word of praise for the Grand Creator of all love and life. It is this very Creator that first breathed purpose into each of us and it is this very same Creator that calls each of us to personally unleash and realize that purpose.