The year was 1908. For their morning devotion the Ackley family read the first Psalm, and shortly after young Alfred was sent to the corner store by his mother. Along the way, the words of the psalm echoed ceaselessly in his mind, particularly the verse “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water…” He couldn’t shake it. Or as I might personally describe it, truth was sown deeply in his spirit. And when the living word of God is planted in good soil, it takes root…