Key #4: Plant seeds and step aside. We adults like our truths to be contained in tidy lessons and simple frameworks. But Truth is neither simple nor tidy, and God himself revealed it to us in parables and stories that cause us to ask ourselves questions again and again, to come back over and over again to look, to fall in, to contemplate, and to wonder. You can’t usually wrap up a juicy conversation with a tidy bow. After all, the last thing you want to say is, “and so the lesson from this story is . . .” Let the story be as big and magnanimous as it will. Let it remain shrouded in a bit of
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