CS Lewis said, “Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection.  If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire:   if you want to be wet you must get into the water.  If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into the thing that has them.  They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.  If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not, you will remain dry”.    What do you do to nurture your faith? How do you measure the strength of your relationship to God?   To know and be known by God sums up all that Jesus models for us. He clearly tells us how we can grow spiritually!  What is your next step of faith?