Souliner: The three stages to our relationship with G-d – the courtship, when G-d suddenly gives you the wisdom to understand that He is alive, he does love you, and he will care for you! the delusion, when you think that as G-d is alive and does love you and will care for you, you may allow him to work while you sit back and reap the fruits of his labor! the honeymoon is over and its time to saddle your boots!