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Robert Kennedy rose to make a campaign speech to an enthusiastic crowd near my home in Indiana. It was a fateful day in 1968. Instead of his prepared speech, he quieted the crowd and dramatically changed the subject, announcing the assassination that very day of Martin Luther King, Jr. Kennedy, soon to be gunned down himself, proceeded to deliver a somber speech urging calm, love, and peacefulness in honor of the slain prophet of non-violent social change. Kennedy’s words of calming wisdom included these:

My favorite poet is Aeschylus. He once wrote, “And even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

This present book echoes the sentiment of these ancient poetic lines. In the journey of faith in this broken world, the follower of Jesus Christ will encounter a jaggedness that can injure and confuse. There will be instances of pain, injustice, violence, and grief. But there also will be bursts of love and glimpses of wisdom and hope coming through the sheer grace of God.