Boyhood Years…Words of Love Unspoken… is an anthology of memorable Biblical events, short stories with vivid traces of fact and fiction. Each tells the story of boys of different times, of different talents and ambitionsA[a–A]one, a young scallywag who, after a several years of roads mistakenly taken, by happenstance retrieves Christ’s sandals as a covenant ; of another, a good Samaritan finding and making a home for Mary, the Christ Child, and Joseph in a friendless town; a young one, strong and willing to become a a son of thunder, selected to be the 13th apostle; the sobering tale of a fully contrite lad who became a good thief ; and fittingly a paean to love in the guise of two, devoted to each other, escaping the deadly clutches of King HerodA[a–A]to save the Savior yet to be born.