E.J. Emerson is a church pastor, a French translator and interpreter, and, as Psalmistry: Reflections of Praise shows, a poet. Jewish born and raised, at age 7 she began a quest to find out who Jesus was and why her religion did not believe in him. This long and fascinating journey of inquiry led to a personal revelation (at age 21). Not converted, she is a completed Jew: a person of the promise and the promise fulfilled. She has worked for French automotive companies, the French film industry, and a worldwide biotechnology laboratory equipment manufacturer. She has also taught college freshman English composition, thriving on the challenge of filling in for the lack of grammar, spelling and writing education in public schools.