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A Note of Thanks

Authors pretend that they are the creators of books, but they know they are just cogs in the wheel. Or at least I know that.

This book came to be because the national Catholic newspaper, Our Sunday Visitor, has given me space for many years to ramble on and on to the greatest readers in the world. I have been associated with Our Sunday Visitor in one way or another since 1971 and have so many friends there — old and new — that it would be impossible to list them individually.

Mike Aquilina — prolific Catholic author and one who has the gift for living the virtues every day — nudged me into this one. And then the kind folks at Servant Books, later Franciscan Media, publisher of the first edition, continued to support me.

To bishops who taught me to live as if the Kingdom is coming, that nothing is impossible with God, and that the good life is waiting in joyful hope, thank you for your guidance. To the nuns who put up with me, and to a thousand priests — from my first pastor to the priest who suffered with me at the Pittsburgh Pirates games — thank you for showing me what vocation means.

The stories in this book come out of a lifetime of experiences that have taught me that God’s great gift to us is the people who touch our lives. Family across the generations and friends, cousins and classmates, coworkers and anonymous kind souls, thank you all. Again, too many to list individually. But thank you Matt. And please thank Maggie and Mark in your prayers.

And a special blessing to my spouse, Cindy. She shines like Dante’s Beatrice.