It's hard to say. God may choose a person for many qualities, and may only reveal some of those reasons. I was told I was chosen for my piety, but I've...I've been given reason to believe it was my patience and capacity for forgiveness. There are many other faithful men in the world, but would their faith hold when they learned just how little angels truly understood? How living without needing to learn or lose or find their own ways gave them a completely different point of view?

How many could forgive a servant of God for not being as compassionate as we believe them to be, because we want to believe they embody all the best in us? I badly want to believe I'm not the only one. That we are capable of such understanding. I'd rather believe that anyone could, given time.

[He realizes he'd rambled off on a tangent, thinking of Beckett's reaction to his world that had given him this angle. He wonders if Jimmy's will be similar or, perhaps, if he'll understand better than anyone.]