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Prologue

This is a story about my life, the outer framework of what I
did and what occurred along the way. It includes my feelings and
viewpoints during what I call a “personal quest” towards discovering
who I was and what my purpose was for being here.

I am over seventy-five years old and no longer able to ignore
the finality of my years; watching my body change and feeling the
aches and pains of older age have stopped me from proclaiming, “I
still feel like a thirty year old.” Friends and family are quickly
passing away. Decisions need to be made about when to retire and
where and how to live in my remaining years. Major decisions appear
to be staring me squarely in the face.

Growing older has come with a lot of reflection about the past.
By writing my story, I feel that while I’m reminding myself of all that
I’ve learned, it’s also encouraging for me to see how connected all
the seemingly miscellaneous events really were and are; a part of
God’s master plan. I’ll never figure out the whole plan but I do
delight in seeing His “golden flickers” of bits and pieces of the puzzle
that occasionally drift my way.

When I first was inspired to write my life’s story, I wanted to
share something that might be of significance to leave behind for
others. What had my life really been about? What could be more
significant than my discovery of an intimate life in Jesus who said He
is THE Life, the One who is in union with me as my very life? In
sharing my story, I can trace how that journey has brought me to the
end of my struggling self-life to an acceptance of His Life as my only
life; the Exchanged Life. My story, my history, is then His-story!

In the midst of all the drama of my earthly life, there was a
yearning to find a place where I felt like I “belonged”. I’ve
discovered how important family is, a family beyond an earthly
mother, father and children; a family that is God’s family. There are