Earl Tyson opens with his grandson David, who insists on saying “me” instead of “I” because, as the boy puts it, “me not Jim Radford.” Tyson uses that small refusal as a picture of an identity that must be given up to God. Speaking at the Minnesota Koronis CFO in 1997, he ties it to his own boyhood memory of being labeled “the sickly one” and marked by an appendectomy scar.
