Interview with God

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