The Least of These

Sometimes I think too much about God and not enough about His children, a devilish bent on goodness worthy of Screwtape: “Do what you will, there is going to be some benevolence, as well as some malice, in your patient's soul. The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.” Not my beneficence only, also God’s: His goodness will only become real to me when I incorporate His mercy into my daily interaction with His children.