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You cannot make a total eclipse happen. You cannot rush it, reschedule it, or get it secondhand from a photograph — you can only put yourself inside a narrow strip of ground, on time, and pay attention.
After a summer as a hospital chaplain and a hundred seconds in a field in Spain this month, I have come to think that is also the whole job when somebody you love is having the worst day of their life.
A sermon about presence: what we cannot do for each other, what we can, and why the small thing turns out to be nearly the only thing.