Today I sat outside and prayed.

I looked down at the small ants that were crawling around my legs, and I wondered -- what use does God gain in being such a thing?

And then I wondered -- what does God have by being even the biggest thing? Nothing is as big as God.

And then I thought -- God can only know the concept of gain if it can know the concept of loss. That is why God is both the smallest and the biggest thing; to know the full range of what it means to be small and what it means to be big. God has nothing to gain except the knowledge of what it means to gain.