hundreds of connections and meanings and implications in the Bible that do not leap off the page at first reading—at least not for me. I have to slow down and start asking questions about the words and the connections. That is, thinking has to become intentional. Up till now most of our thinking about Matthew 7:7–12 has been spontaneous and intuitive. We worked so long for the first ten years of our lives at learning how to speak and listen and read that we can now do it effortlessly. That is one