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There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would. They closed their eyes as Sister Philomena whispered the words and I thought this must be the nearest humans get to whatever God is, when they hold hands and listen.

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Intimacy with God is not experienced through monolog prayers but through reflective listening as well as earnest petitioning.
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Nothing, I learned, brings you into the present quite like holding hands. The past seemed irrelevant; the future, unnecessary.
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Later, holding Milo’s hand in the dark, Jacob felt that it was only in recovering it that he learned what he had been in danger of losing. The touch of Milo’s hand seemed to remind him of parts of himself that he had already begun to forget about.
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The hands on a clock move without regard to the hands you hold.
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end, he realized that prayer is listening.
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