Today
has been largely a day of one-to-one listening.
I
was listening to someone this afternoon, who was telling me many things and on
several occasions over the course of our time together paused, and asked
themselves, “now, why am I telling you that? How did I end up there? It wasn’t
what I had set out to tell you...”
And
the only answer I can suggest is that you ended up there because that is where
you needed to be. Because there was an appointment to be kept there — perhaps
with God, perhaps with yourself — in which I am only a witness, a friend to
give you the necessary courage simply by being with you so that you don’t have
to go alone. Because appointments are often bigger and scarier in the
anticipation — even if, at a conscious level, you didn’t know you were
anticipating it — than they turn out to be in the event.
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