We had been sure there was solid ground beneath us just a moment ago. But suddenly we look down and there’s nothing. No old worldview. No new worldview. Just . . . space. But unlike Wile E. Coyote, we do not fall. We float. Because we didn’t just lose our grounding; we lost our gravity—our entire way of being, of understanding ourselves and the world around us. We have no compass, no sense of direction. We don’t know what’s up, what’s down, what’s forward, or what’s back. We are confused and, all too often, we are alone. We float above an abyss and, as the Bible tells us it was before the
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