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@markrsmith@smithtodon.org
2026-07-16 01:57:21

This quote from a fantasy book describes being a chaplain so well.
#chaplain #listening #PaulaLester

Quote:

Phoenix held the orb. The knowing moved through her, filling the spaces between her ribs, pressing against the walls of her chest. It was enormous, this man's sorrow and love and regret, too large for a letter, too large for a lifetime, and she held it. She held it the way she'd held the hill sprite matriarch's humming and Oak's silence and the sentient mailbox's existential crisis and the taste of her mother's soup on a Tuesday afternoon. She held it by not looking away, by not trying …