I learned a lot from him after the fact, but missed really getting to know him

THE MORE IGNORANT MEN ARE, THE MORE CONVINCED ARE THEY THAT THEIR LITTLE PARISH AND THEIR LITTLE CHAPEL IS AN APEX TO WHICH CIVILIZATION AND PHILOSOPHY HAS PAINFULLY STRUGGLED UP. (Shaw/CS Lewis writings) --  along the journey of the years I have known people with whom I got cross ways and I just turned them off. I never sat down one on one and talked, listened, shared. I think of one man in particular in a small church who was church treasurer but never would tell us how much money we had. I tried to force him and got no where. In retrospect I suspect the people gave so little he had to make up the difference, because he always kept the bills paid. Any way, I learned a lot from him after the fact, but missed really getting to know him. It was my ignorance at the time that kept the door closed …...