Have I tasted and seen?
William Law remarks that people are merely 'amusing themselves' by asking for the patience which a famine or a persecution would call for if, in the meantime, the weather and every other inconvenience sets them grumbling.
One must learn to walk before one can run.
So here. We -- or at least I -- shall not be able to adore God on the highest occasion if we have learned no habit of doing so on the lowest.
At best, our faith and reason will tell us that He is adorable, but we shall not have found Him so, not have 'tasted and seen.'
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy.
These pure and spontaneous pleasures are 'patches of God-light' in the woods of our experience.
-- From Letters to Malcolm, by C. S. Lewis
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