To pray for your enemies, to worry about the poor when you have worries enough of your own, to start becoming yourself fully by giving of yourself prodigally to whoever needs you, to love your neighbors when an intelligent fourth grader could tell you that the way to get ahead in the world is to beat your neighbors to the draw every chance you get— that was what this God asked, Paul wrote. That was who this God was. That was who Jesus was.

Frederick Buechner