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To be in nature and to let it be just as it lets you be.

Listening.

Benefiting one another mutually and appreciating the other exponentially as time progresses.

This is true life when shared with others.

What is better than getting together with old and dear friends and sharing laughter, stories, and the best tea in the whole world?

If there is any moral precept shared
by people of all beliefs, it is that we
owe ourselves and future generations a
beautiful, rich and healthful environment.
—Edward O. Wilson, The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth.

The art of praying, as we grow, is really the art of learning to waste time gracefully—to be simply the clay in the hands of the potter. This may sound easy—too easy to be true—but it is really the most difficult thing we ever learn to do…. This is the real reason why so few of us ever come, in this life, to the full experience of God’s love for us.

– Thomas H. Green
When the Well Runs Dry

Today, they begin to run across the back yard. I think this will make me laugh every year.

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

– Matthew 23:13-15

This is a pencil a student had today that literally made me laugh historically. What a good day.

‘I can't take any more of this. I'm at the end of my tether.' You know what it is like, don't you, listening to a case that seems hopeless? While you are hearing with sympathy, part of you is wondering, ‘What can I say?' The mother on my phone did not know what sort of help she needed, only that she was at the end of her resources. The household had become unliveable. When she phoned it was not to ask for specific help, but rather wanted to know, ‘Is there any way we can survive?' She said, ‘We cannot hold this anger and frustration anymore.'

Jesus spent days moving among the sick, the depressed and the demonic, who were drawn to him because they thought, ‘Here is somebody who will listen to my bad news; he will not just walk away.' Most of the miseries we listen to are beyond our power to change, but when we listen to friends with compassion, and avoid blaming, moralising or pushing solutions, we contain their miseries, share their burdens, take in their despair, and metabolise it into hope.