Consider this analogy: When you're sick and your friend brings you a meal, what meets your needs-the meal or the friend? Both. Without your friend, there would be no meal; but even without the meal, you would still treasure your friendship. Thus, your friend is both your higher pleasure and the source of your secondary pleasure (the meal). Likewise, God is the source of all
lesser goods, so that when they satisfy us, it is God himself who is satisfying us.
