This sermon invites listeners in Lent to practice deep, intentional listening to God and to one another. Reflecting on Eve and Jesus’ temptations, it suggests the real danger is abstraction, choosing power, certainty, and distance over relationship and presence. Using the image of Chicago’s elevated train, frightening from afar but deeply human up close, this message calls us to resist judging from a distance and lean in close enough to hear the heartbeats and hopes around us.