into God and his ways. So for those same seventeen years, I have written a letter to my people about once a week in what we affectionately call the Star. What you have in your hands is a collection of some of those meditations. They are, by design, almost entirely meditations on Scripture. Some focus on personal or social application. Others focus on biblical explanation. In both cases the aim is to be implicitly and explicitly biblical. That is their only claim to abiding usefulness in life. Many