NOTICE BOARD JANUARY 2006 

AN  INTERVIEW  WITH  GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

 "So you would like to interview me?" God asked.

"If your have the time", I said.

God smiled, "My time is eternity.  What questions do you have for me?"

"What surprises You most about humankind?"

God answered:-

1. That they get bored with childhood.  They rush to grow up and then long to be children again.

2. That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.

3. That by thinking anxiously about the future they forget the present and live in neither the present nor the future.

     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, then I asked

"As a Parent what are some of life's lessons you want your children to learn?"

1. To learn they cannot make  anyone love them.  All they can do is let themselves be loved.

2. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.

3.  To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.

4. To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in those they love, and that it can take many years to heal them.

5. To learn that a rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.

6. To learn that there are people who love them dearly but simply have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.

7. To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.

8. To learn that it is not enough that they forgive one another; 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 to know that I am here......ALWAYS."

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Submitted by Margaret Whittaker