You know when you have been in the company of someone who listens. Simply being around them is a blessing of immense and vast depth. It’s as if you’ve been refreshed. Washed by cool spring waters of nourishing clarity. To hear and respond is both fundamentally relational and vitally human. They are the signature affections of creation and the singular hope of humankind.
They are affections we would do well to nurture today! Indeed, those who have gone before us found that nurturing an affection for hearing and responding developed a state of awareness in life providing hope and leading to worship; even in the midst of conflicting and confusing times.
Those who have gone before us also found that these affections, when nurtured, lead to a fully aware and actively engaged life. They lead, in other words, to the good life!
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