Scripture Meditation: The Cloud of Unknowing: Beyond Words

The anonymous 14th-century English mystic who wrote "The Cloud of Unknowing" taught that Scripture meditation could lead to a place beyond words, where the soul rests in God's presence without thought or image. "For of all other creatures and their works -- yes, and of the works of God himself -- a man may through grace have fullness of knowing, and he can well think of them; but of God himself, no man can think."…