If it is true that there is a God, and that He has made us for Himself alone, then no sooner do we become aware of that fact, of God wanting to welcome us into His life, than we find ourselves longing to be united with Him. “I to my Beloved, my Beloved unto me,” is how the great mystics put it. And the attraction, we need to insist, which is greater than the gravitational pull of all the planets…