The interview with God
The
Poem:
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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