Part of an author’s genius, which one might say is also part of God’s genius, is never to manipulate his people like puppets to be what he wants them to be but to leave them continually free to become whatever they have it in them to become in the world he has created for them so that they may rise out of his creating heart and spirit with their own rich measure of his truth the way you and I rise out of God’s heart and become forever part of it.
