listening to people all day, it can be hard to be attentive to a 4-year-old’s chatter. Those times call for heroic action: putting aside lofty thoughts of ministry (and putting down the newspaper) to make eye contact and enjoy a few minutes of touching and talking with the other important people in our lives. A third strategy is to let the family know you’ve been thinking about them in your absence. For some, this means recounting conversations during the day in which you were able to say a good