“I couldn’t put it down; I stayed up for nights on end to read it.”  That’s an almost universal response to my book, “Twelve Stones,” a humbling and gratifying response.

But something else I hear all the time – from people who know me personally – is, “I didn’t know that about you!  I never dreamed you’d done those things!”  I hear it so often it makes me wonder how well we really know our friends.

We think we know them well.  We assume a lot.  But they have changed.  You and I have changed.  And our opinions have changed, too.  So anything we think we know about our friends, or even of ourselves, “is only a snapshot of a passing moment.”  And the only honest answer we can give to the question: “Who are you?” is: “When?”[1]

[1] “Crazy for God” by Frank Schaeffer (Da Capo Press 2008), p. 391

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