Writing a book is a surprising experience, partly  Duality Review because the story emerged differently than I imagined. I suspect a lot of creative endeavors are like that-you prepare and plan and develop your skills, but you also have to make sure that your own ideas and schemes don't get in the way. The final product is often something with its own spirit that existed before you arrived.

Michelangelo claimed that his job as sculptor was simply to expose the form that already existed within an ordinary-appearing chuck of rock:

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it... I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

While I certainly don't intend to compare my book to a timeless masterpiece, that's the feeling I experienced in writing. I wasn't creating a story as much as I was revealing one. And that means that the story doesn't belong to me. I was simply given the gift of disclosing it to those who need to hear it.

It's a priceless gift, a gift of grace I certainly don't deserve. Thirty-five years teaching math to kids isn't the typical preparation for writing a book, and yet here I am. I guess the Bible shows that God frequently chooses unlikely messengers, and I'm surely in that category.
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