Dear Readers: I invite you to read this work about the

kingdom of God with an open heart and mind and a willingness

to entertain new ideas, to chew on them to see if they have

merit and if they will take root in your being. Even if you're

able to open up just a little, that might be sufficient to begin

to expand the way you think about God and the kingdom and

your place in it. These ideas are grounded in Jesus's sayings

about the kingdom in the Gospels with the addition of my own

experience as a long-time follower of Christ, plus what I have

been given to understand in the course of writing this book.