In the present volume, Adrienne von Speyr describes Christianity as a life before God, and so as an existence in the divine presence that fulfills the essential nature and vocation of the human being. Her emphasis throughout is on the presence of the supernatural in the midst of the ordinary. In his life before God, the Christian does not turn his back on the world, but bears it within himself, carrying it to God in work and in prayer, in sacrifice and in substitutionary expiation. Readers will find here a helpful guide to the profound theological meaning of the universal call to holiness rediscovered by the Second Vatican Council.