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THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD
I dreamed I had an interview
with God.
“So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time” I
said.
God smiled. “My time is
eternity.”
“What questions do you have in mind for me?”
“What surprises you most
about humankind?”
God answered...
“That they get bored with childhood,
they rush to grow up, and then
long to be children again.”
“That they lose their
health to make money...
and then lose their money to restore their health.”
“That by thinking
anxiously about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”
"That they live as if they will never die,
and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked...
“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons
you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they cannot make
anyone
love them. All they can do
is let themselves be loved.”
“To learn that it is not
good
to compare themselves to others.”
“To learn to forgive
by practicing forgiveness.”
“To learn that it only
takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in those they love,
and it can take many years to heal them.”
“To learn that a rich
person
is not one who has the most,
but is one who needs the least.”
“To learn that there are
people
who love them dearly,
but simply have not yet learned
how to express or show their feelings.”
“To learn that two people
can
look at the same thing
and see it differently.”
“To learn that it is not
enough that they
forgive one another, but they must also forgive themselves.”
"Thank you for your
time," I said humbly.
"Is there anything else
you would like your children to know?"
God smiled and said,
“Just know that I am here... always.”
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