God comes to Peter inside of Israel’s first and deepest gesture—in the moment of prayer. God comes to Peter inside the creature’s deepest truth—in the moment of his hunger. Prayer and hunger, hunger and prayer—these will be the pillars on which God will build the future of the creature. These are the pillars on which God will constitute the new order. Hunger and prayer go together, completing each other in God. God wills the creature to pray, and God wills the creature to hunger. God wills Israel to pray, and God wills Israel to know itself in its hunger.
