INTERVIEW

[Guest guest]

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 if they had never lived."

God's hand took mine and we were silent for awhile And

then I asked... "As a parent, what are some of life's lessons

you want your children to learn?" God replied with a smile

"To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they

can do is let themselves be loved." "To learn that it is not

good to compare themselves to others.To learn that a

rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who

needs the least." "To learn that it only takes a few seconds

to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes

many years to heal them." "To learn to forgive by practicing

forgiveness.To learn that there are persons who love them

dearly, but simply do not know 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

always enough that they be forgiven by others. But that they

 

must forgive themselves."

"And to learn that I am here always."