Even more than that though, we learn that God brings healing again and again. Augustine thought that our souls can be healed through Christ's Spirit, and the healing of the soul involves all parts of the personality and the will. This can be understood as turning your life and will over to God through Christ. Christians sing many hymns about this such as "Take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to thee."
Brown explains that we need to be trained for this task, but finally we can by means of widening our selves, our minds and widening our hearts, we can increase our capacity to take in something of what we will never hope to grasp completely in this life.

This concept opens a window onto the spiritual world. We can have our spiritual world widened, and this in a very trustworthy and in a very "convenient" way: only open the Bible, pray and read, and by doing this day after day, as we grow older, we grow wiser as we are stretched wider.

"One must look into the Scriptures, the eyes of your heart on the heart of Scripture? Widening can only happen by loving what is partially known; it is impossible to love what is entirely unknown, but when what is known even a little is loved, this very capacity for love makes it better and more fully known. No one will ever love what one has no prospect of understanding a little: faith without the hope of understanding would be no more than compliance to authority. Yet one will not understand what one is not prepared to love. To separate faith and reason is wrong. What concerned Augustine was to get a process in motion-to purify, heal, and widen, constant interplay of the two elements of faith that works by love of understanding that God may be known clearly and so loved more fervently." Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo