Surely each of us asks ourselves in the depths of the night, “Who am I?” “How did I get here?” “What am I to do about it?” Whatever our answers, they are going to be grounded in our gender, ethnicity, culture and life experience.

Deacon Mark Kelly reflects on the astounding changes in the world during his lifetime. This book is an attempt to encapsulate these and to locate himself amidst them. A lifelong but occasionally unsteady Catholic, essentially, he is attempting to identify who he is, how he got to be here and what he is called to do about it. He surmises that socio-politics, DNA, the happy accidents of his birth and childhood and Spirit (or fate or blind luck) substantially determine his spatial and spiritual location.

He asks and attempts to answer the most fundamental of questions. And he recounts some of the fun and silliness and re-calibration that has brought him to this point in his life. Along the way he observes that much of what he thought was fundamental core to his self and his beliefs has proven not to be so. Yet he remains a committed and enthusiastic promoter of that which he does regard as fundamental core. Essentially that is the Kingdom of God, which itself is a kingdom of all embracing love in which we are all loved by our Creator absolutely, infinitely and intimately.