“We do not worship God,” Lauren writes in verse. “We perceive and attend to God / We learn from God . . . We shape God.” It’s as good a truth as any, as holy a space in which to rest our minds: We are not the passive recipients of the numinous, but the active constructors of a pantheon. We make the change, and it makes us. Entering into that exchange—knowing the depths of permanence and the restlessness of movement—is the work of a lifetime.
