Hey everybody, this is Tim Chavez from Faith Matters. We recently read a wonderful book by

S. Michael Wilcox called What Sea Key, How the Questions of Jesus Lead us to Him. In

each chapter of the book, Brother Wilcox explores a question Jesus asked in the scriptures.

One in particular stood out to us. It was the question, why weepest thou, and in the

corresponding chapter, Brother Wilcox explores the role that trials plan our lives. He sat

down with us to talk about that chapter, and shared what he's learned as he's gone through

his own universities, including the deeply felt loss of his wife, Larry. To give you a little

more background on Brother Wilcox, he received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, and

taught for many years at the LDS Institute of Religion adjacent to the University of Utah.

He has spoken to pack crowds at BYU Education Week, and has hosted tours to the Holy Land

to China, church history sites, and many others. He's written several books, and he and

his late wife, Larry, are the parents of five children. We felt honored to share this time

with Brother Wilcox, and we hope you get as much out of this conversation as we did.

Okay, Brother Wilcox, welcome, and thank you so much for joining us. We're really excited

to talk to you, so thank you. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Thank you. Hope you'll

be glad when I go. Absolutely. So we just finished your book, What Seeky, and just loved

it, and it had been recommended actually multiple times by friends and listeners, and so we

finally read it, and just it was such a beautiful, a beautiful book, and we totally understand

why so many people were just kept bringing it to us. So for someone who hasn't read it,

the book is structured around the questions that Jesus asked during his ministry. So what

Seeky, and wife, he hold us the most, and the brothers, I, and what are the other, where

are the nine? All of these questions, I mean, there are like 20 or 25, right? Like lots

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