'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.

You're only going to get surface with me. It takes me ages to warm up to people.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.