"Although God chooses us before our birth, our path to Him is filled with uncertainty on our part. Everyone has a different story. Everyone experiences events that one way or another end up being connected through time in a divine tapestry of sovereignty. Of course, you can’t always see it when you’re caught up in the middle of it. Only distance and reflection allows us the opportunity to savor some of the episodes where God was obviously at work. If I hadn’t left Cuba without my parents at the age of 11, I would have never met my Kansas-native wife. If I hadn’t been able to afford my college tuition, and I almost didn’t, I would have never met the friend who invited me to my first evangelical church. But we are not there in the story yet, for I must start telling mine from the beginning."