Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
First, I want to thank God, and His Son, my Savior and Redeemer, for arranging and planning this wonderful union between my parents so that I could be their daughter and be given the privilege of delving into almost all their letters and journals. My parents have become even more treasured in my heart after reading through these marvelous writings of their walk with Christ as well as with each other.
I want to thank Marion Redding, my dear Maid of Honor, who chronologically organized and helped with many findings of quotes, the filing of documents in the right places, and patiently showing me what to do over the phone when I was falling apart! She also made some suggestions of how to write some of the sentences I struggled with, and understood the huge and precious legacy I carry.
I am so grateful for Margaret Ashmore (a dear friend of my mother’s before Margaret and I even met) for editing, deleting, and rephrasing many words or sentences. I am just as grateful for Lawrence Kimbrough, my editor and collaborator at LifeWay/B&H. Lawrence and Margaret have been very patient with this “baby writer” and have shown only kindness, patience, and humility toward me in their suggestions.
When I first began the writing in 2013, another good friend, Samantha Caroway, found, marked, and labeled many sections of Shadow of the Almighty that I wanted to use in this book. She loved the book, as have so many, and appreciated my father’s deep commitment to following Christ alone.
I also want to thank Anthony Solis who is working on a book of my mother’s letters to her mother and is still helping me understand (because of my non-computer brain) how filing and folders work in a PC and has sent me my mother’s letters from his findings at the Wheaton College Archives.
Two other friends, Julie Cochran and Shelley Hendry, have helped read through the journals and letters my parents wrote, and transcribed many of them for me, taking care and time to do it well for this book.
In reading these letters and journal entries, I hope each of you readers will be as affected and blessed (even awestruck) as we were, and as a result, give yourselves more fully to the cause of His kingdom. I also thank the many sisters in Christ, and my family, who prayed me through the last four years! There are too many to name, but each of you knows who you are and I am so very grateful!