In the tradition of Augustine’s Confessions, and later works including St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing urges us toward a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ, founded not on our knowledge or intellect, but on a heart intimacy, and companionship of our souls. Psalm 134 tells us, "I still my soul and make it quiet, like a child upon its mother's breast; my soul is quieted within me."

Let us join this anonymous Christian mystic from the 1300s, seeking exactly that kind of rest and growth with God -- a quieted soul, resting closely and transformatively in the presence of the almighty God.