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What I offer is a theological reflection on the traditional art of allowing our drugged and deadened consciousness to wake up to a life-bringing conversation with the life-giving God.
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The speaker describes a theological reflection on a traditional practice of waking a “drugged and deadened consciousness” into awareness. That awakening is pictured as a conversation with God, and the repeated language of “life-bringing” and “life-giving” presents this conversation as a source of renewed vitality. The quote focuses on spiritual attention rather than ordinary conversation.
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