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In conversations, those who are not present are often described in terms of their mistakes. Even individuals before us now are seen as stories and not as they are this instant. In faithlessness we think, “You are created in the image and likeness of your past.” Yet it's not mentally dishonest to focus instead on what is fresh, different, and unexpected. The encounter I am having now has never occur red before. Except on a spiritual level, no one is ever the same, and their progress will not be evident if I only stare at the decisions I have already made about them.