These essays represent serendipitous thoughts that are designed to tease your mind, tickle your heart, and touch your spirit throughout the year. Together with the author’s four previous volumes of essays, there are 331 in all, more than enough to tackle one each day throughout the year, with Sundays off for good behavior. If you’re not that ambitious, just leave this volume within reach on your bedside table. You should quickly be able to find a topic that will help you fall asleep more easily, dream more pointedly, and awaken more refreshed. In any case, whenever you feel the urge to preach the doctrine of Christ, teach the principles of the Gospel, expound upon the scriptures, or exhort your family, friends, neighbors, or congregations to greater faith, look for a relevant topic within these pages. If anything I have written helps you to learn, lead, lift, laugh, love, or live, I will be content.