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Acknowledgments

Special Thanks

To Maggie Rivers, my music teacher who had the wisdom to introduce me to Fur Elise by Beethoven, which saved me during some especially painful times. While writing this book, I would steal away to my keyboard and let the beautiful music bathe and soothe me. And for the times we spent the whole lesson sharing stories of Jesus instead of playing piano.

To Kathleen Jordan, my friend and confidante, for giving me encouragement like a waterfall and whose belief in me has kept me on task and whose kind words always included God.

Love flows one way—splashing, rumbling in a torrent toward, always, those we love. We nurture; we provide; we guide; we put them first. We know they love us; they tell us so. The love is different somehow, and we do not expect the same in return; we just know. Once in a while, not very often, when we don’t expect it; we feel a splash. We catch our breath. Then we realize, for just a moment in time, that splash is what we live for. And so I say, “Thanks for the splashes.”