Day 136h: Empathically evolved at Estes … (September 12, 2019)
I eventually flowed through the now high-heat afternoon to the hamlet of Draper Valley, where an overriding thirst had me stopping off at Estes Express Lines shipping company, where the secretarial staff and the manager on call were all extremely kind to me, letting me rest awhile in their air conditioned office and then giving me three bottle of refrigerated spring water to take with me for The Road …
“In community we are called to care for each & every member of the community. We can choose our friends but we cannot choose our brothers and sisters. The former find us through circumstance and similarity, and yet the latter are given to us on a daily basis – and this, whether in family or in community or in every stranger met along the way … There is no real Inner Peace to be found in merely taking care of me and mine. Any sense of purpose & fulfillment can only be felt in attending to the overarching needs of we and ours.” ~ inspired by Jean Vanier & John Bruna
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