It's my belief that we live in an existential state of incompleteness and imperfection, seeing, hearing, understanding and responding to the flow of life-around-us and life-within-us only partially and sporadically.  Once in awhile we get in sync, but mostly we are in a state of unsteadiness and paradoxically are "saved" when we radically trust we will keep on going even when we teeter on the brink of utter confusion and down-heartedness.