If you do not let God start the process of taking this real you to Himself, you will always be stunted. God grieves that you will never be His beautiful adult child because you refuse to let yourself be. We all know parents who have seen their children fritter way his or her gifts, take drugs, make a foolish, destructive marriage. God feels this infinitely more, because His love for you is far deeper and more constructive than the most loving of parents can feel for their child. God is both conceptually apart from us and really within us: in God we live and move and have our being. It is an extraordinary statement that "in God we have our being." It is absolutely true. That we have no idea what it means does not make it any less true.
— Wendy Beckett, Sister Wendy on Prayer