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Only in the brokenness of true humility, can we see beyond the false borders we ourselves, saints and sinners alike, erect. Thomas, an agnostic who has done more for God‘s creatures and perhaps any random hundred believers together, puts it more simply. Life, he says, is complicated.

As a younger woman, I often found myself bewildered by Josiah‘s ability to carry on with practical concerns while rocked by affliction…For so long, I’d misread Josiah‘s steady calm…even to sleep soundly most nights as indifference. But it is his own way of shouldering into hardship, like a sailor on deck in a gale, refusing on principle to turn his back to the howling wind.