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Taylor's faith was tested earlier this year. He sank into a deep depression, sure that his heart trouble and pneumonia would kill him. In the hospital, he began looking over his life. "I thought, God has really had his hand over my life, all the way through," he says.

Since recovering, he's been relishing the small graces of life—like watching Lydia, his six-year-old, wander around the house making up songs about Jesus. And being content with his old car.

"It's a bit like me," he said, "covered in rust and got a few dents but the engine still runs sweet as ever. What's the point of changing it?"

Bob Smietana is features editor of The Covenant Companion, the monthly magazine of the Evangelical Covenant Church, and blogger of the "god-of-small-things" site (http://god-of-small-things.blogspot.com).

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Other Christianity Today articles about Graham Taylor and his books include:

A Christian Harry Potter? | Shadowmancer, Britain's hit fantasy novel, conjures darkness so the light will shine brighter. (June 17, 2004)

The Dick Staub Interview: G.P. Taylor, Dracula's Former Vicar | The author of Shadowmancer talks about his early interest in the occult, and his later transformation into a clergyman. (June 17, 2004)

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October 2004, Vol. 48, No. 10