“We do not experience ourselves as gift until we are engaged in the act of creating. The confirmation of a person as gift acknowledges what is obvious, but it does not give enough attention to what is not as evident—the unknown potential in a person that can be brought into existence only through the exercising of gifts. We cannot use our gifts without having unknown chords in us played upon a whole range of effects that bring us alive.”
—Elizabeth O’Connor, Eighth Day of Creation, p. 27
