This is his story, told in his own voice. “Franklin is willing to share his own understanding of the doors opening before him,” Robert Nicholson notes, [and] “his profound insecurities as again and again he was called to serve and lead in new territory. He teaches us how life should be lived: pushing through new and formidable frontiers, being willing to risk, serving the Lord with all our gifts, maintaining an attitude of thanks for all.”