Every morning our postures are pressed into shape by the bodies of other people boarding the Sky-Train. There isn’t even standing room, but one more person will step backwards into the mass of humanity and exhale while the doors close an inch or so from his nose.

This physical closeness to the people we have come to love only heightens our awareness of the distance involved in reaching a heart. To know someone at a deep level, one must fluently speak their heart language. So we are currently spending a few months at a specialized language institute that is speeding up our language-acquisition process.

God is near, but most of the people around us don’t even know His name.

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