Wouldn't it be boring if each of us - right now - knew everything that could be known about our individual selves? Might we also be surprised by the oft-forgotten variety and extent of our own selfhood? Add the further dimensions of new, shared lives which somehow overlap - a special friendship or the divine intimately present in the everyday. Would not each person be awed while also admitting that it is impossible to know where the human 'ends' and the divine 'begins' in the creation of new personhood? Might we not marvel that a new, third person is created in the blending? It would then be as if great new worlds had merged! This is an underlying theme in a number of the poems presented in Entering the Mystery, each poem accompanied by related citations from Scripture and Saint Benedict's Rule which after fifteen hundred years offers wisdom and challenge. As the Foreword suggests, the 'method' which accompanies the writings is lectio divina - the prayerful reading of the written word, and indeed of life itself.