THE INTERVIEW WITH GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

“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.

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.

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