When life the gadget slips through our fingers, we begin to see life as gift. Having heaped up things and rituals and people and positions only to find ourselves still empty, still wanting, however good our motives; having discovered that the hollow place never goes away no matter how we gorge it, we look again at things we took for granted, and, if we're lucky, this time discover in them what we have never seen before. Pain and failure make astounding spiritual directors. Hurt and disappointment make amazing guides. Dislocation and rejection make spiritual creatures of us all. Uncertainty and
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