March 19th

Today is March 19, 2010. Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley were last seen by their families 22 years ago today on March 19, 1988.

Why?

Since the inception of This Night Wounds Time in April 2009, I have been asked countless times (and in a variety of ways) why I felt compelled to undertake the task of writing a book about Stacie Madison and Susan Smalley, two individuals whom I did not know personally.

The most concise answer I can offer in this regard is that, whether the world can comprehend it or not, I simply felt called to write the book. As Ephesians 2:10 says, "[W]e are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."

While writing the book, for inspiration I looked to Oskar Schindler, whose deeds were, according to Herbet Steinhouse, the result of, "just that elementary sense of decency and humanity that our sophisticated age seldom sincerely believes in."