Hello and welcome to another episode of One Heart, One Mind.

I'm your host Thomas McConkey. Thank you so much for listening today.

I'm aware coming into this episode that last week I shared a story about my kids and a lesson

my son, June, taught me about how important the quality of attention is in life and in prayer.

So it's with a little self-consciousness this week that I come with another story about my kids.

This is not a podcast about my kids.

It's not about parenting.

And hopefully it's not too much about me.

I hope this podcast is a space in which you can deepen your relationship with the source of life.

Come to know your truest self.

To come to know Christ, come to know the divine life, by tasting it, by living it for yourself. With that said, I do have a story about my kids.

Preface, I have been fascinated by human development for the last 20 years.

It's even become something of an obsession, some might say.

I think a little obsession can be very healthy in

adult life, but that's another episode. I have paid a lot of attention the last 20 years to

adult development. I spend my time in research and writing and teaching talking about more or less

what happens, you know, once we're into our

20s. That's a whole thing. And if you haven't explored that before, please join me for an upcoming

event, a workshop, a retreat. You would be amazed at just the infinite world of adulthood that you may have yet to discover.

Anyway, moving on here, having kids has been fascinating to me because I have been up close and personal

for the last five years with my son and the last two and a half years with my daughter.

And I'm getting insights into the early stages of adult development.

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