One man s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God s mysterious guiding hand.

Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable. "