Mares: "Madge, we're proud of you. You've been staying in your own bed so well. First off, it makes God happy, and secondly it makes Dad and me happy."Hah! Madge asked a question I have never posed or thought of. What is the devil's last name? I guess if we think of a name as a definition (identity) of sorts with a genus and a species, the devil's name would be Lucifer the [fallen] Archangel. He comes from a great family (the archangels), but definitely has made a bad name for himself. But, as Mares, proposed, let's not focus on him but on God...
Madge: "Why does it make God happy first?"
Mares: "Because God is the first person we make happy."
Madge: "Who is last?"
Mares: [pause] "The devil."
Madge: "What's the devil's last name?"
Mares: "He doesn't have a last name. But we don't really concentrate on him; we concentrate on God, because we want to be like Him."
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
"What's the Devil's Last Name?"
Mary recounted to me the conversation she had with Madge as she went to bed.