This book is written from the perspective of Steven Warwick Xander, who looks at patterns. For example, he and his siblings are approximately three years apart, and there are many other patterns throughout the chapters and personal memories to reveal a story rich in diverse experiences. The narrator's work receives significant attention in the story. He sweats and struggles, noticing patterns of threes and their divisors in both his military and civilian life. When a family member becomes ill, the family ultimately comes together to advocate for an appropriate diagnosis.

Life lessons in family relationships, education, military service, civilian work, marriage, illness, and healing are described as commitments that succeed best when work, endurance, and love combine with faith. An elderly woman has spiritual experiences that seem to define her as a seer. The narrator frequently notices numeric patterns in everyday situations, especially in multiples of three, to which he is particularly alert.

The author's book is structured as a story with many chapters that describe processes across the lives of the narrator, his family, and their history, co-workers, medical personnel, friends, and many others. The author elucidates the narrator's day-to-day, year-to-year existence, showing how Xander and the people he knows have not only survived and endured but also enjoyed life and celebrated successes while encountering deeper meanings and growing physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The lessons in the story emphasize the needs of people for one another, the need for work for support and personal growth, and the presence of signs and abilities to access divine direction when people are open to them.

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