The Milo Letters

Dear Milo, Confuse her. She has been reading about “faith and works,” yuck. The very phrase makes me gag. I want you to confuse her understanding of this concept, and make her worry that she does not have enough of one or the other. Make her wonder how the Enemy could love her if she doesn’t have enough faith, and by the same token how He could love her if she doesn’t have enough works. Unfortunately, she already knows that her salvation doesn’t depend on those things, but we can make her time here on earth more agonizing if we make her feel like she always has to measure up to some amount of faith or works. The trick is to ensure that “amount” is ambiguous, and continuously make her feel guilt about whatever amount she has

Dear Milo, Make her question if the love of the Enemy is relevant in her day to day life. Make her doubt that the love of God is ALL that she needs, every day. This is really quite simple since she lives in a world inundated by messages that say she needs this, needs that, must attain this quality or this item in order to succeed. When she feels some lack, let her turn to a myriad of other things instead of the Enemy. She doesn’t know that it isn’t so much an empty void that disturbs her, but what she turns to for filling that void. Keep her running on various other fuels like attention, analyzation, self-improvement, social interaction, and let her exhaust her other options before turning to the Enemy.