What if God didn't speak?  Would we hear anything?  Would we be anything?  In creating the apophatic (hidden) God, modernity, though it succeeded in removing divine oversight from the human adventure, it also, intentionally or not, made us the origin of all things, made us the ones who speak to ourselves, from ourselves, in a world that we insist is from ourselves--even though, ironically enough, we will never control what we have made.
     If we really want to hear, if we really want to be, we must listen to the one who was and heard first.