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Who am I? Why do I think I have any right to express my opinion? What are my credentials? Why should anyone take anything written in this book without a grain of doubt, salting the taste of my words? There was and maybe still is a saying used when the issue of credence, honesty, relevance, is questioned. “Take it with a grain of salt”. I would hope that my words and thoughts are taken in exactly that way. Jesus mentioned salt, (Matthew 5:13, Mark 9:50, and Luke 14.34), when he admonished his disciples, (and those of us who seek the guidance of His understanding), to realize that we are the “salt of the earth”. I have lived an ordinary life, with just a few accomplishments worthy of note. I have been and still am trying to maintain the salt that is undoubtedly the essence of living. The greatest commandment? That is the salt, and we are that salt when we love one another. I have come to know many people who, like myself, are deemed unworthy of love, for one reason or another. It is difficult to “season” the flavor of our angry, disgruntled, politicized, finger pointing, in many ways rudderless society. Love, as a concept, does not occupy the hearts and minds sometimes, and it has rarely found a lasting home historically in any past society. So I am one who hears, in the words of Jesus, a promise that there will be a Kingdom of love established on the earth, and it will be filled with people who love each other. That is a fact that I think we ought never “take with a grain of salt”.