How far we have come from the wisdom saying in Prov 25:2 that God’s glory is to conceal a matter while a king’s glory is to search it out? Once that human task was democratized, like the move to make room in heaven for the Pharaoh’s subjects too, the touch became truly reciprocal. For nearly forty-three years, I have explored the implications of the human initiative in a silent universe. Like Karl Rahner, I have found divine silence to be a compelling reason for a determined search to discover God’s presence through insights provided by biblical sages. I, for one, am eternally grateful that these wise men and women did not abandon reason for faith, as important as faith is to knowledge, but tried to the best of their ability to actualize a reciprocating touch that even Michelangelo did not envision when depicting the origin of humankind.
