Ask People How They Feel

 Ask people how they feel. Watch the eyes. Be on the alert. When illness or depression goes unnoticed, pain and aloneness deepen. The person withdraws, becoming less sensitive to others who may also be struggling. Negativity spreads, relationships spiral into fear and isolation, and people stop going deep with one another. Life becomes a superficial setup for quiet desperation: a somewhat manageable misery. Is this the way we want to spend the life God has given us? I don’t think so. If I were the devil, I’d design a state of being to sap life from humans and distract them from their blessings. I’d disperse estrangement and self-focus across the world, lowering it to a diminished state. Keep people from loving. Keep them from gratitude. Keep them talking only of weather reports and politics.

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