The Human Heart
An honest look at what actually governs our decisions, beneath the answers we give in public.
The Story Behind the Book
Joseph Allain Lenferna de la Motte
Ireland, May 2009
For most of my life, I never intended to write a book.
I was trained as a financial engineer and spent much of my professional life in the world of business, finance, institutions, and complex problems. I learned to analyze, calculate, plan, structure, and solve.
But behind that professional life, another journey was taking place.
For more than four decades, God was patiently teaching me something far more difficult than anything I had encountered in business:
how to trust Him.
It was not a journey I would have designed for myself.
There were seasons of extraordinary joy and seasons I did not understand. There were prayers that seemed to be answered and others that appeared to disappear into silence. There were moments when the path ahead seemed clear and others when God seemed to place a blindfold over my eyes and ask me simply to take the next step.
Little by little, one question began to emerge beneath almost everything:
Do I truly trust God—or do I ultimately trust myself?
For years, I thought these experiences were individual lessons. Only much later did I begin to see that they belonged together.
They were one journey.
A journey from self-reliance to the Father’s heart.
Humanity at a Crossroad grew out of that journey.
I did not write it because I had finally discovered all the answers. I wrote it because, after forty-seven years, I had discovered something far more important:
The God who holds the blindfold is infinitely trustworthy.
This book grew out of that discovery.
My hope is not that readers finish these pages knowing more about me.
My prayer is that somehow, through them, they come to know the Father a little better.
