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Acknowledgements

My life would never be as joyful and wonderful as it is without my beautiful wife Judith. She is God’s best gift to me. He has made us one and I am so glad to be one with you.

To my children, C.J. and Victoria. You are my delight and joy. I am a very blessed father to have children like you. The future is yours—go God’s way.

To my publisher, Larry Willard, and my editor, Janet Diamond, and Castle Quay Books. Thank you so much for your gracious touch that is felt in every page of this book.

I also want to personally acknowledge all of my family and friends who were there for us in our time of crisis. Thank you. To my UrbanPromise family, what a journey we live. I also want to say a very warm aloha to the wonderful friends, doctors, specialists and nurses we met at Maui Memorial Hospital, who were so wonderful to our family. We will always be grateful for the wonderful care we received. Mahola.

To the families in UrbanPromise who were affected deeply by the tragedies in this book and to all of us who will face more trials in the future. Jesus walks with us!

Finally, but most importantly, to my heavenly Father who is always present with exceeding amounts of comfort and grace. Life would be empty without You.

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“We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and everyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

– C. S. Lewis,

The Problem of Pain