corresponds to yours, is that God did come through for me. The phrase may sound heretical, but to me, after so many years of failure, it felt as if he had suddenly decided to be there after a long absence. I prayed, hiding nothing (hide from God?), and he heard me. There was one painful but necessary step of repentance. Repentance, says C. S. Lewis, “is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going