As I shared in Volume One, I am a man so desperately in need of God's grace, it just amazes me that He would shed His love upon me. But as we endeavor to know Him better, we discover that He is so often the Master of the unexpected. He seems to specialize in the 'nobodies, ' and is found in the 'nowheres'. As He commands the wind and waves, as He heals the sick and raises the dead, as He ties into the 'spiritual elite' and cares for the lowly sinners, as He dies and then rises to eternal life - He is continually surprising us. These devotions are offered in the hope that those believers in Christ who have encountered the trials of grief or simply hunger for a more intimate relationship with God may be encouraged along the path of their pilgrimage.