But what Tyler longed for was to have The Feeling arrive; when every flicker of light that touched the dipping branches of a weeping willow, every breath of breeze that bent the grass towards the row of apple trees, every shower of yellow ginko leaves dropping to the ground with such direct and tender sweetness, would fill the minister with profound and irreducible knowledge that God was right there. Elizabeth Strout
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Tyler was a child who longed for the feeling of The Feeling. He wanted to feel something profound and irreducible. In his experience, humans often try to explain their emotions with words. Tyler wanted more than that – he wanted to feel God’s love surrounding him and filling him up with all of the joy, grief, and happiness that he had ever felt before. He wanted to feel something new and profound instead of describing what he had experienced in words.

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