"You see it's like this: the Book tells us most distinctly that 'God is love.' Now it was love that sent Laddie to bind himself for a long, tedious job, to give Leon his horse, wasn't it ?" "Of course!" I said.

"He wouldn't have been likely to do it if he hated him.

It was love, of course!" "Then it was God," said father, "because 'God is love.' They are one and the same thing." Then he kissed me, and THAT was settled.

So I wondered when you longed for anything so hard you really felt it was worth bothering God about, whether the quickest way to get it was to ask Him for it, or to try to put a lot of love into the heart of some person who could do what you wanted.

I decided it all went back to God though, for most of the time probably we wouldn't know who the right one was to try to awaken love in.