This present chapter is a bridge to the next part of my book, in which I share some of my formal meditations on texts of Holy Scripture. These meditations all engage the Bible as an overarching story. Entering and emerging from that story, I have often been changed as if by theophany. Maybe not Moses-and-Burning-Bush theophany, but the palpable presence of God nevertheless. In attempting to give verbal form to my meditations, I recognize that, apart from the energy of the Holy Spirit in the reader, they remain ink on a page. But I trust that the Spirit may honor my attempts to witness to the
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