The Rev. A. Powell Davies wrote, “Life is just the chance to grow a soul.” Between nature and nurture, who and what we become is a lifelong process. We are both the raw material and the artist. Every experience becomes part of the material with which we can work. Every person we meet is a possible partner in a mutual collaboration of formation. To be sure, we can stop the process by settling, by letting the clay of our being harden, but the wiser choice is to remain pliable. And the goal? To complete our life before it is ended by death. The people that we tend to admire are those who kept growing and changing throughout their life, first by addition, and then by subtraction as they shed layer upon layer in search of their essence.
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