The life I now live in this body I live in faith; faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake.

(Galatians 2:20)

Every man

ought to be thought of

as a new experiment

in God's laboratory.

This is

just another way of saying

that God is aware

of each one of us

as individuals

with all our exciting

distinctiveness.

and not as mere blurs

in the vast crowd

of humanity.

Surely

this was the way

Christ related to people

during His time on earth.

When he was asked

to heal the man

who was deaf and dumb

he did not content himself

to effect a cure

by a mere flick of His will;

as it were,

with detachment.

Instead

he insisted on

the personal touch.

He put his fingers

into the man's ears

and touched his tongue.