That this imaginative work might make of faith, in the life of the individual, a sort of causality dilemma (a ‘chicken or the egg’ scenario) — in that one needs the childlike willingness that is characteristic of it in order to approach those truths with the awe or wonder they deserve, before one can even consider or adjudicate their reality; and that one then increases in the confidence or trustingness that is among faith’s endowments, by the very act of exercising that awe or wonder — is, I think, one of those paradoxes that speak to how the secrecy or hiddenness of God is maintained even while his nearness to us, and his friendship for us, is extended.