An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers.
He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him through the Holy Spirit.
But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God--that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him.
You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying--the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually involved in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.
The man is being caught up into the high kinds of life--what I call Zoe or spiritual life: he is being pulled into God, by God, while still remaining himself.
---C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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