“That is John’s amazing understanding of creation: the universe, each element in it, each event in it, and the web of those events held together – all thought, all friendship, all history – are given being by the eyes of Another, eyes ‘communicating’ being to the world. Such a creation is flamboyant in its beauty, as the Word of God, glancing kindly but wildly, ‘scatters a thousand graces’ and floods the cosmos with traces of who he is.11”