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To Rebekah

This life we have built together continues to teach me more about the gracious, openhearted, generous love of God than any resource I have ever come across. So I’m dedicating this book to you because you are my inspiration, my heart, and the most profound explanation of what it means to live faith—and love—out loud.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The idea for this book first came up in a conversation with Robin Pippin at a book expo in Indianapolis on a cold January day; so thanks to Robin for blowing on the embers a few years later when my own, personal Reaching Toward Easter experience began to translate into a manuscript. Since that time the project has taken shape in response to the belief of many good people. So I acknowledge the spiritual gift of discernment via Robin, Eli Fisher, Anne Trudel, and Joanna Bradley at Upper Room Books; the gift of encouragement in my best friend Gerard and my co-teacher Charles Willard, and via the gifted and spiritually astute Praise Band at First Presbyterian Church of Brandon; and — most poignantly — the gift of inspirational via the amazing preaching of my wife and pastor, Rebekah Maul.