I wrote this book to trace back one light of history, though imperfectly. I wanted to let people know how the love and dedication of a human being who was small and weak could make the world progress step by step, and intended to find what we could do to make this world which is becoming more dreary and desolate day by day a better place to live in. Love is like a bear hibernating in its den. When it is sleeping people don't even know it exists. But when awakened, it shows itself, pulling a big tree out and making roaring sounds echoed throughout the whole mountain. The person whose dedication has saved the lives of 3,017 chil- dren and whose great love burdens us with debts we can never pay back was Harriet Hana Hodges, who would later be called 'Grandma Hodges' by the children she saved and their parents.

Cover
Prologue
The First Seed
Heart Defect
Shin-Jae Choe
Harriet Finds the Way
The Metropolitan Medical Center
First Step
Good News
People waiting
Mothers at the door
People at the door
Right Down to Mission
The Second Flight
Rapidly Increasing Sponsorship, More Rapidly Increasing Patients
One Hundred Thousand US Dollars
The Most Aching Finger
The Coin That Brought Luck
Love Spreads All Across Korea
Metropolitan Club (MC)
Mothers¡¯Club
Sister Michaela, Another Angel
Life-saving Drive Spreads to Pusan
the Rotary Club
Meets President of the United States
The White House? This is the Green House.
Meets the First Lady
Birthday Present
Air Force One
Shadow Cast Long
President's Volunteer Action Award
Picture Painted With Toes
Korea, Koreans
Farewell
International Human Assistance Program (IHAP)
From Across the Pacific
Twilight over the Indian River
Reminiscences about Florida
Partner for Life, Carroll Broadus Hodges
Epilogue
Tears and Smiles
Thrift and Generosity
What Harriet Left for Us