Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface xv
Principles the Father Taught Me: Experiences Through Which He Taught Me and When
Mortality: My Sister Janie's Death, 1950s 1
Community: Ice Skating and Tractors, 1950s 11
Family: Popcorn, Onions, and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, 1950s 19
Anointing: The Impactful Democratic Convention, 1956 27
Transformation: My Early Journey to Jesus, 1957 39
Character: Rogueing the Milo, 1950s-'60s 45
Love: Weeping in the Dormitory, 1970 53
Standards: Meeting the Girl I Would Marry, 1970 67
Permanence: My Brother Bob's Death, 1974 79
Adoption: The Adoptions of Janie, 1977 and Joshua, 1980 91
Revelation: The Covenant, 1983-2013 103
Seeking: Pursuing Him, 1983-1987 119
Fatherhood: Abba and ADD, 1985 129
Affirmation: When Adoptions Fell Through, 1986-1990 135
Principles the Father Taught Me: Experiences Through Which He Taught Me and When
Completion: The Adoptions of Jacob and Josie, 1991 145
Friendship: When My Son Became my Friend, 1996 155
Reliance: My Father's Death, 1998 161
Perseverance: Building, 1950s to 2012 173
Steadfastness: Prop 8, 2008 187
Resolve: My Wife Diagnosed, 2007 197
Servanthood: My Wife's Illness, 2007-2013 207
Survival: The Day My Wife Died, 2013 215
Honoring: Remembering Carol, 2013 223
Value: Selling the House and the Estate Sale, 2013 231
Resurgence: Courting Again: Rosemary, 2013-2014 239
Restoration: Marrying Rosemary, 2014 253
Afterword 263
Endnotes 269