AIt makes quite a difference whether I am sharing something, asking for something or really "disclosing" myself to someone.  When the latter happens I allow the other person to share a part of myself that is hidden from others.  The mystery of God's revelation according to Christian belief is that God not only speaks to us but that God "discloses", and "reveals", to us glimpses into the mystery of God's love, into the "heart of that mystery", the very being of God.

Rarely is there a person who discloses their deepest secrets openly.  For such disclosure we want a trustworthy person and a quiet hour.  So it is with God.  Here we perceive the limitations of declaring something of the mystery of God through human words.  God's self disclosure, God's continuing granting of insight into the mystery of God's love is dependent on the responses of people.  Only when Abraham begins his journey and relinquishes all his possessions, only when he allows himself to be led step by step on the way God is leading him, and only when he looks more and more into God's heart does he really and truly learn to know God.  God's people had the same experience on their way through the desert after leaving the flesh pots of Egypt behind.  The disciples had a similar experience.  Jesus did not lay out his program for them before calling them to be his disciples.  Those who walk day by day with Jesus and allow their whole life to be answerable to his call, know him better each day.  They experience that in Jesus and through him they are permitted to look into the heart of God.

God's self disclosure happens no differently for us when we allow ourselves to be addressed.  As we respond to God in word, deed, faith, hope and love we experience more and more that God allows us to look into God's heart, to the extent each one can bear and to the extent God deems good for us.  Through my response - whatever it is - I tune the "transmitter" (my life) to God's "wave length" (to use pictorial language).  But when and how God transmits is a matter of God's choice..

- Mark 10:46-52 (Healing of the blind man)

Jesus said: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:9).  Enter again into the same story, but today look only at Jesus.  Carefully observe each particular aspect of his actions as recorded in this story.  Linger with each image that comes before your eyes in the story, looking at Jesus and seeking in and through him to recognize the Father.  Ponder how God's self is revealed in the events of Jesus' life in such a way that  the mystery of God's love is disclosed.

It is wonderful when this meditation flows into adoration of God's love.