to bring his faith and his experiences of longing and beauty together, ending once and for all the war between them. He now saw those moments of ecstatic bliss as signposts pointing to God. And of course the signposts stood most often within the realm of physical sensation. The place where, for humans, the touch of that divine finger was most present was in the physical world, apprehended through sensory experience—the realm, Lewis pointed out, that God created and uniquely blessed in the incarnation.