Terms of Endearment

Terms of Endearment the, book was conceived while on a gospel 
Mission trip to Maseru, Lesotho on the 14th of February 2006.
This book is a love story.
 Or a collection of love stories.
It is a simple but frank discourse on the labor of love as I have known it 
over the past thirty years. Snippets of my own story interrupt the 
conversation along the way but much of my learning that I attempt to 
share here has developed out of a keen observation of other people's 
journeys. Almost all the stories in this book are true. We have altered 
names to respect privacy and in some cases renamed places to protect 
the identity of the characters involved. Each anecdote has been 
carefully edited and shared for the sole purpose of emphasizing a 
point in the narrative. Never to humiliate or express vindictiveness. 
The entire book is nothing but a conversation about learning how to 
relate at different levels. But especially on the family front. Conscious 
of my own limitations, I have written this book with humility and tried 
to be as sensitive and compassionate as possible to those who may 
share a similar set of circumstances. Every mistake you encounter 
herein is entirely my own.
The book has 45 short chapters divided into ten sections. Each section 
expresses a subject designated by a letter in the book title.
In essence the correct title is Terms of E.N.D.E.A.R.M.E.N.T and the
following are the section headlines:
Empathy, Nurture, Demonstration, Emotions, Acceptance, 
Relatableness, Maturity, Endurance, Nobility and Trust…respectively.