The Transforming Power of Friendship
Illustration
by Editor James S. Hewett

As a part of an assignment for a doctoral thesis, a college student spent a year with a group of Navajo Indians on a reservation in the Southwest. As he did his research, he lived with one family, sleeping in their hut, eating their food, working with them, and generally living the life of a twentieth-century Indian. The old grandmother of the family spoke no English at all, yet a very close friendship formed between the two. They spent a great deal of timesharing a friendship that was meaningful to each, yet unexplainable to anyone else. In spite of the language difference, they shared the com…

Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Illustrations Unlimited, by Editor James S. Hewett