John, however, with more sublimity and propriety, says in the beginning of his Gospel, when defining God by a special definition to be the Word, And God was the Word, and this was in the beginning with God. Let him, then, who assigns a beginning to the Word or Wisdom of God, take care that he be not guilty of impiety against the unbegotten Father Himself, seeing he denies that He had always been a Father, and had generated the Word, and had possessed wisdom in all preceding periods, whether they be called times or ages, or anything else that can be so entitled. (Book I, Chapter 2, Part 3)

God was (is): logos, the word, order in complexity, pattern in chaos, the meaning around which a flood of events will strangely swirl.

This is surely wisdom, but we are challenged to fully engage. Our self-referential tendencies - finding analogies to father, son, and other human attributes - complicate as well as clarify.

As creatures of space and time we are limited in our ability to imagine realities beyond space and time.