the important thing about God is that i can explain God's actions—they're all love—yet they never cease to surprise me. every time i encounter God the encounter is somehow not what i would expect, even as i know that each encounter shares precisely the same raison d'être. likewise God instills a response in me which i can explain—i do it for love's sake—but which surprises me. after all, it baffles me that it is possible to act for God in the first place, since God lacks nothing which i can provide. God is not opaque, God is perfectly clear, but even if God would tell me exactly what was going to happen, i would still respond with awe. neither do i understand, nor do i not understand, but i am loved, and i love