The woman of the parable who lost her coin gives...a clue, for she "would not have found it if she had not remembered it...It was lost only to the eyes; it was preserved in memory."  So it must be with
God, he reasons.  "How shall I find You if I am without memory of You?"  We can only seek what we have known, and knowledge of God, then, must be memory of God.

Terryl & Fiona Givens, The God Who Weeps, pg. 39