Too often, however, we do not allow the events and experiences of life to teach us the habit of grace. What we have instead, and mass produced in our society, are what I call “liminoid” experiences. Our society has mass produced these as substitutes for liminal experiences. They look like a movement out of our cozy space, but aren’t. “I have to get away from it. I’m going to the beach for two weeks,” people say. When we see people come back, they’re not refreshed at all. They have the same old agenda, the same old fears, the same old anger. They let go of nothing at the beach. Their way of
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