I began this book a year before my eldest son left for college. Two days before he left, its final chapter—the one about the purpose of life—was still blank. I had been asking the question for thirty years. I had it wrong the whole time.
Not more advice. Not a verse on a card.
Something a person could keep and come back to, something that still holds at two in the morning when a friend asks what you actually believe and why.
And this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
My eldest son, Johnmarc, was headed off to college, and I wanted to give him something.
That is as close as I can get to what I felt at the time. Something. I could not have named its shape then, and I am not certain I can now.
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“I wrote this first for my sons. If you are not one of them, you are welcome to it all the same — it was never meant to be private.”
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