Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, now and then friends share with us things that are special to them. One gal shared that a long while ago, Pastor ‘Phil’ [name changed] was telling them that: “Listening is not hearing. Touching is not feeling. Looking is not seeing. There is the sense and the sensibility. The former is our body’s proper functioning. The latter is our ‘will to awareness.’” Then she went on to explain that we involuntarily might listen, but we all know that we hear only by intention; she then gave...