God

God’s self-revelation to us, absolutely naked, completely without convention or ornament, and yet, not in a denial of nature, rather, in truth, the decryption of nature, and the sacralization of all things.  We do not—as so many well-meaning people think, invent this God.  Not the god of the philosophers, not the god of the politicians, but the loving and sustaining ground of all being, God, utterly separate, utterly self-evident, and yet close to us.  In him we live and breathe and have our being—not the other way around.  (An experience; an experience that, in reality, one cannot adequately begin to put into words…)