She shares her story in hopes of encouraging others to find their truth and freedom. One thing leads to another and pretty soon Jeffords finds himself in the camp of Cochise with whom he strikes up a friendship. He finds an Indian boy whos been wounded by whites and he tends to them and heals him. Kathy takes a risk to reveal dark experiences from her past and her painful longing to discover Where’s Jimmy? Where do you believe? Along the way, traveling from Ohio to the mountains of Colorado, then back to Ohio again, Kathy finds Jimmy-and Kathy finds herself. Jeffords, a veteran of the Union Army and the frontier wars is heartily sick of the slaughter hes witnessed and participated in.
Why do you believe? Like a flower blooming, Kathy gradually opens up to thinking for herself and expressing her own emotions as she continues her lifelong search for answers to global questions about spirituality, death, and an afterlife. Ultimately their beliefs and hers collide, forcing Kathy to make difficult decisions to either conform or free herself-at the cost of losing her family and community. What do you believe when the truth changes? Kathy’s journey is riddled with forbidden questioning and doubts about her father’s beliefs and his religious community, specifically and most poignantly as they dictate Jimmy’s presumed fate. The author, Kathy Jefford, then reveals her search throughout her life as a conflicted woman programmed to obey the rules of the religious group she was born into. Who do you believe? Where’s Jimmy? begins as a story told through the eyes of an eight-year-old girl who lost her close childhood companion, Jimmy.
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