A new insight...

I came across the following as I was reading the other day (no, I haven't completely given up reading even though I've "graduated"!). Maybe this just seems obvious to others, but I had not previously considered(or at least had not thought about it in this way before) that one of the ways in which we are created in the image of God is in our mystery and unknowableness:

"To believe that we are born in God's likeness is to believe that what is deepest in us is mystery. Just as the essence of God is 'invisible and incomprehensible and passes all understanding', says Eriugena, so it is with humanity, created in God's image. What cannot be known about us is greater by far than what can be known. The deeper we delve into the mystery of our being the more we become aware of its limitless depths. This is not to preclude a scientific study and investigation of the human. Rather, it is to say that the heart of who we are always surpasses knowledge. We can be 'contained within no definition'...No one is to be regarded merely as an object, for at heart each woman and man is a holy mystery." ~Philip Newell