the things we have need of

Off the plane, and strolled through the airport headed for cab line and had that feeling again -- that feeling like all around me these lives existed and given the time and energy I could feel and see and experience and understand every one of them.

What if this: there is individual maturity and role maturity -- and what if role maturity as shepherd allowed one to sense this very thing? This ability to be attuned to others and understand them to such a degree that needmeeting not so much a burden as a gift? Not sure where I'm headed with this. Still struggling with that tagging-along sadness that accompanies the life-recognition.