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Acknowledgments

This book is about opening ourselves to mercy, to love that responds to human need in an unexpected or unmerited way. This book is itself the result of many mercies shown to me by many people over the course of my life. While some of these people do appear in the following pages, many do not, and so I would like to acknowledge them here.

For love: My wife and daughters. They do appear in the book, although under pseudonyms of their own choosing. Our dog, Harold, has chosen his real name.

For editorial advice: Cindy Cavnar and Bill Roorbach.

For inspiration: Catherine Duclos, Mary Johnson, Joanne Pierce, and Donna Steinmetz.

For friendship: Peter Gottschalk, Keith Harmon, Father Warren Hicks, Jack Horky, Thomas Landy, and Malik Neal.

For mercies shared: David Robert Campbell, Elin Cohen, Anita Houck, Rebecca Krier, Vaughn Kurtz, Janice Lloyd, Kevin Meinert, Nestor Santana, Julia Schmalz, Hema Sharma, Kevin Walsh, and Kimberlee Wyche.

And for merciful memories: Albert Duclos, Betty Hubsch, Marzena Ladiejewska, Kim McElaney, Constance McKenna, Stephen Schmalz, Johnny T. K, and Theodore and Irene Tourangeau.

I would also like to express my gratitude to two journalist editors who have provided me encouragement and opportunity, and also gave me permission to draw upon pieces previously published online: Teresa Hanaflin of Crux (www.cruxnow.com) and Corrie Mitchell of On Faith (www.faithstreet.com/onfaith). Citations of the relevant articles may be found in the Endnotes.