Try as we might, we are never quite able to reach God, at least in this life. We keep reaching throughout our lives, even as we grow through the stages and crises of the cycle of life. We continue to reach out, even as we sort through the confusion of contemporary values. Yet all the while, at a deep and intimate level, we know that God is with us, even while seemingly so far beyond us. James Torrens, working from a literary and classical bent, takes on a series of questions posed by contemporary psychology regarding spiritual concepts familiar to Christians. The essays he shares here many of which appeared in the Jesuit journal Human Development, explore this mysterious relationship.