“So many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the program carefully, believe every statement made in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and then. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God. Yet there are plenty of things in our normal existence, which imply the existence of that world, that music, that life.”

– Evelyn Underhill, The Spiritual Life.

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My assistant starts the day with a clean-up and scrutiny of his farm.