If any acquaintances of mine should hear that I have written this book their reactions might well be, "Who is he to write such a book? Hes not rich or famous, and certainly has done nothing of real importance." I would not only hasten to agree with them, I would willingly supply reams of supporting evidence. Nevertheless, the book did get written and apparently you have it in your hand, so perhaps I owe you an explanation of how and why that came to be. This book is a chronicle of my personal spiritual journey, meandering from holy-roller revivals I experienced as a child to the other side of the Christian spectrum. It is simply my search for the Norm-not the average, but the normative life of the Christian. What should that look like, and how can one recognize it if he does stumble upon it? This is what I found. I long debated whether or not I even wanted to bother writing it all out, but I finally decided to do so, as much to settle the issue in my own mind as anything else. Among the other reasons were these: First, my trek took some totally unexpected turns long after I thought I had things pretty well settled and in their proper places. Were it not for these late-life changes I certainly would not have bothered with this account. In fact, those changes are the very reason for its existence.