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            "It is written, in the Book of the Prophets, that the Most High knows all the desires of our hearts, even the least wish of the most ignorant child.  Such things are never passed by without answer, but the answer may often come in a form we never expected.  So it was in this case. . . " 

The ways in which a story grows from the original seed are sometimes hard to trace, especially after the fact.  This one began a long time ago, probably twenty years or more, with a man whose name I’ll probably never know.  It was a rainy afternoon in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and I had stopped for a minute under the shelter of a drugstore awning on my way to the library.  But while I waited for the rain to slack off a little, I saw the strangest thing.  Standing right in the middle of Clinton Street in the soaking rain, was a man in overalls lifting up his face and his hands to the sky and praying aloud.  I watched him till he finished his praying and disappeared around the corner, and I’ve never seen him again since that day.  But the image has always remained in my mind, and from that little seed (in the fullness of time) grew this book. 

It's the story of a boy who daydreams about greatness and ends up being asked to do more than he bargained for.  Such is the case sometimes when we offer ourselves to God to go wherever He may send us.  The price is sometimes high and the battle can be fierce, as it was for Jeremy in this story, but he learned in time that being called of God is always worthwhile, no matter what the danger or the cost.  That's something we should all remember.