The sublime thought of Gregory of Nyssa remains a true guidepost today: «these gliding and glittering lights of God's word which
sparkle over the
eyes of the soul... but now let what we hear from Elijah rise up to our soul and would that our thoughts, too, might be snatched up into the fiery chariot... so we would not have to abandon hope of drawing close to these stars, by which I
mean the thoughts of God...»
Me: serious, reliable, charismatic Midwestern type with a
sparkle in my
eye, an excellent sense of timing and a
mean jump shot.