In an endeavor to find a fresh way into the scripture text upon which I would be preaching, I began to develop an imaginary world populated primarily by wee folk. I found they—the characters I developed and the way that they evolved in my mind and on the page—served me well as a consideration of how I sensed things happening in the scriptural text at hand. I want to make these stories and the world they represent newly available, and so I bring them to book form, fifty at a time. The cover drawing was done by Eve Sullivan, the author’s granddaughter. The drawing is the artist’s conception of the plaza and town hidden in the mysterious hill country between the plain and the sea.