He believed that God gives us talents and gifts so we can do for one another what he wants to do for us and through us. As a writer, for example, he could fill people’s lives with meaning through the telling of stories that convey the nature of reality. 17 Niggle was assured that the tree he had “felt and guessed” was “a true part of creation” 18 and that even the small bit of it he had unveiled to people on earth had been a vision of the True.