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Into the world of publishing!

 It began purely as mental exercise to work through my own thoughts and loss.  My mother had recently died quite suddenly in January 2022, and about the same time I was starting to teach a Bible Study on Revelation.  I began writing out in prose form the outline that I had used to teach this Biblical book.  I was in essence fleshing out the bare bones that an outline represents.  I had no thought of publishing, no idea how long it would be, I just wrote.  It was more an effort in self-therapy than any sort of intentional book project. Some nights I wrote for a couple of hours, others just a half hour or so, and some nights nothing.  I had no thought that this might be something that I would someday publish so I did not footnote as I went.   As I went along, the project took on a bit of a life of its own.  It had been some years since I had written anything "serious" or "heavy" and I found myself very gradually shifting my writing style.  What began in a relatively i