In so doing, we deny them the tools for growth and for healing. Our society has simultaneously deprived children of basic frames of reference that once made secure exploration of life’s gifts possible, and thrust upon them a cacophonous array of electronic and other distractions that cripple their ability to see, let alone understand, the world around them.
Nowhere is this inability to embrace life’s basic vitality more tragic than when it infects the young. The ability to exist in the present, to observe and rejoice in one’s surroundings-as the saying goes, to live simply and to simply live-is lacking in most of us. Miracles on Maple Hill by Virginia SorensenĪ measure of the brokenness of modern society is the totality with which we have forgotten the simplest and most vital of things.
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