God is transcendent of all creation, joined inextricably to the creation, simultaneously known and unknowable. He is the mystery within, beside, and above all things, dwelling beyond the ineffable and closer to us than our own souls. Sometimes, in our contemplation, we are very nearly pantheists (God is everything), panentheists (God is in everything), and transcendentalists (God is beyond everything) all at once — and does it matter? No, it emphatically doesn’t matter in the least. Prayer is experiential, and God can be trusted to guide our thinking about our experiences later. He is beyond
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