Thank you for being here and thank you for supporting this effort, an effort much more challenging than I'd originally conceived. Simply put: this is a book of true stories. Stories have been the mainstay of man's history and knowledge since life began. This book is simply an anthology of carefully selected TRUE 'life-altering', 'PROBLEM SOLVING' stories that were selected from a much larger pool. These exact stories, if comprehend in depth, transform and change lives for the better. I've seen just one of these simple stories change people's lives in a VASTLY MORE positive direction. People often find themselves far better off after reading or hearing one of these stories (or series of stories which seems to compound and lock in the positive change). I find that a powerful thing to give. Sometimes one simple story can open the hearer to an 'experiential reality' of a much deeper truth. This is a book filled with stories. Each story is unique! I've seen just one simple story change people in a positive direction for life. Sometimes a simple story can open the hearer to an experience they desperately need. Sometimes it just takes the edge off some problematic experience the reader is going through or sends them in a wiser direction. Sometimes it just makes the reader laugh! Sometimes they cry. Responses vary and as each induvial's needs are different. There's no beginning and no end to the book. Each story is unique! Know that the stories are real. There are stories about great danger, about life and death, and about deep intimacy. There are stories about hope and humor. These stories, however, share the common element of "miracles" and Devine intervention into the life of the subject. Please know the stories themselves are not about telling people where they should go, what they should do, or how they should act. However, these are stories that tend to pull up that which is inherent in the human character and thus change people's lives from the inside out. Another way to frame it: they inspire people, and cause people to think deeper, act more wisely and with more 'expectation', and seek harder. This introduction also contains a request, a request specifically to you. The Request: If you find any one, or any combination, of these stories has a positive impact on you; please share it with someone else. All you do is (1) let them read what influenced you and (2) ask them for their feedback. Better still; share your positive experience with many others. If one person shares their positive experience with 10 others, and those 10 share their positive experience with 10 and so on times 10, things change. With that kind of positive ripple the world can't help change for the positive. Please notice that these stories are sticky. Once one of these stories is read and felt, it will always be remembered. It will be told over and over at the most appropriate times (and sometimes told at the most inappropriate of times)! That's the power of stories. That's why I put the book in this format. This has worked and produced results. But YOU on the other hand can spread and compound those results on the world by simply sharing YOUR positive impact with one other person (or 5 others or 10 others), that's very doable. That is the request. The truth is, with just each of us sharing your positive experience of change with others; we can, over time, change the world to the positive! Thank so much and may many blessings shower your path through life.
