I have to be willing to be intimate, to surrender my goal-setting, direction-oriented, controlling, self-defining self, in order to be encountered, to be met, to have a chance to be known. This is hard for me. . . .

Intimacy cannot be commanded or planned. It is not willed but happens by grace and opens the inner doors of the heart. It more readily happens when I lay no claim to anything and discover instead what is already present, already given.

— Gunilla Norris, Journeying in Place