...And in prayer this real I struggles to speak for once from his being and to address for once not the other actors but--what shall I call Him the Author for He invented us all The Producer for He controls all Or the Audience for He watches and will judge the performance The attempt is not to escape from space and time and from my creaturely situation as a subject facing objects. It is more modest to re-awaken the awareness of that situation. If that can be done there is no need to go anywhere else. This situation itself is at every moment a possible theophany. Here is the holy ground the Bush is burning now.

The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking But I never knew before. I never dreamed.... I suppose it was at such a moment that Thomas Aquinas said of all his own theology It reminds me of straw.