1. Hiddenness is an essential quality of the spiritual life.

2. In our society we are inclined to avoid hiddenness.

3. In hiddenness we do not receive human acclamation, admiration, support, or encouragement.

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4. Both solitude and poverty protect the hiddenness of our lives.

5. God is revealed in the hiddenness of the external form.

6. One of the reasons that hiddenness is such an important aspect of the spiritual life is that it keeps us focused on God.

7. It is in hiddenness that we can find a true intimacy with God and a true love for people.

8. The two most important ways to protect our hiddenness are solitude and poverty.

9. It is in hiddenness that we, like Jesus, can increase "in wisdom, in stature, and in favour with God and with people" (Luke 2:51).

10. By including the Psalms in the Holy Book, God made his hiddenness a part of Israel's worship and preserved it for all humanity to ponder.

11. If indeed the spiritual life is essentially a hidden life, how do we protect this hiddenness in the midst of a very public life?

12. Perhaps the biggest challenge for my faith is to come to terms with what Martin Luther called the hiddenness of God—Deus absconditus.

13. But I have felt the divine gravity pull me back toward God, even while I am dumbstruck by his hiddenness.