Jan Johnson: "It requires humility to stop moving and shaking long enough to be present to people. To allow someone to pull you in on the tractor beam of their gaze is to submit to that person. Taking long enough to hear the details of the whole truth impinges on our longing to get ahead in a me-first, look-out-for-number-one way of living. I'm racing through life, interacting with cash machines and e-mail messages so I won't have to bother with people and then, suddenly, there's a breathing human face who wants me to respond. It's one thing to say I want to become a person who welcomes the stranger, but quite another to have any sense of mission when my routine is interrupted."
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