"...we can also miss the deep-down Christ-pattern of reality because of its sheer elusiveness. God's presence in the singularity of created objects - the infinite housed in the finite, the shoreless ocean absorbed in a sponge - can be glimpsed but never held for long. It flashes before us like lightning, illuminating everything for a brief second before vanishing again. As creatures with finite rational powers, we find it impossible to hold in our minds the spiraling depths of inscape in a bird feather or fish scale. "Our vision fails, our thought fails, we cannot follow it home, we cannot reach its littleness or its vastness, for the end of both is God." We must be content with the realization that "God's way with us [is] to hide and reveal Himself at the same time" - not because God is coy, but because we can only take in so much." ~ from The Art of Dying and Living, by Kerry Walters, Lessons from Saints of Our Time