God speaks to each of us as he makes us,
then walks with us silently out of the night.
These are the words we dimly hear:
You, sent out beyond your recall,
Go to the limits of your longing.
Embody me.
Flare up like flame
And make big shadows I can move in.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, "Let Everything Happen" in RILKE'S BOOK OF HOURS: LOVE POEMS TO GOD