God is faith. 

this thought struck me again just now.

if one has no faith one cannot hope to find you because it is such an essential part of your response to us.

faith is not something which can be argued towards:
either one has it or one doesn't and the only way to move from not having it to having it is to fall there.

the problem here is that, if it is possible for someone to be a truly good person - to do a truly good thing - without faith then it must follow that God is not only faith: that goodness and faith are not necessarily interchangeable. 

but perhaps a truly good thing can only be done when there is faith . . . . . .

certainly it is true that, where there is no faith, it becomes much much harder to do a good thing . . . .semantics perhaps . . . . . 

which brings me back to something I was thinking during psalms. 

in the Carthusian book 'They speak in silences', in imitable Carthusian fashion, the author was trying to put into words things about the link between suffering and the search for God. This either always sounds 'super-spiritual' or just plain glib if the text is not  worded carefully enough.

I think this must be because, though there are links - and very important ones - some chasms seem not to be bridgeable with mere words. Which is I suppose why the very title is a paradox: trying to say the unsayable . . . .
it is not always given to us to be able to see things from your point of view although it is perhaps what you call us towards.