Personal interest is one of the greatest forces in the world, yet we so often fail to express it or we discount it. This book is about the people who wrote their lives into my life. It is a tribute to more than 100 individuals and groups of individuals both known personally and through public contacts with public figures. It stresses their spiritual sowing as well as general cultural and life sowing into my life. I could not be what I am today without what these people put inside me. I am filled with gratitude for every one of them, and for Jesus the great overarching contributor to my life. These all know what it is to work with him for others.