Educators consider the parable to be a great instructional tool. Certainly, it was one of Jesus' favorite methods of teaching. The writer has chosen this technique as well. In this volume, Life's Little Parables and Other Lessons Along the Way, Patricia Harper Cummings shares stories collected over a lifetime, each a tale that teaches. She believes that God reaches out to each of us daily and longs to touch and enlighten us by transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary. He does this so that we may learn how to distill timeless spiritual realities from life's simple lessons along the way.