Dear Readers: I invite you to read this work about the kingdom of God with an open heart and mind and a willingness to entertain new ideas, to chew on them to see if they have merit and if they will take root in your being. Even if you're able to open up just a little, that might be sufficient to begin to expand the way you think about God and the kingdom and your place in it. These ideas are grounded in Jesus's sayings about the kingdom in the Gospels with the addition of my own experience as a long-time follower of Christ, plus what I have been given to understand in the course of writing this book.