Which isn’t to say that faith is to be regarded passively, as something that either belongs to us or not, like an attribute that one would inherit genetically, so that, if we feel its absence in us, in the main of our life, there is no point in attempting to open ourselves to the possibility that it might yet obtain to us, through a movement of our will, and by a reorientation of our self to reality, and a recognition of the goodness that is inherent in all things; for that is precisely the process by which it will take form in us, and grow. But only that it is in the nature of providence to know all things, so that that which will be written has been written, from the perspective of that non-contingent being that exists out-of-time, and that we can refer to as God.