I dreamed I had an interview with God.
“Come in,” God said. “So you would like
to interview Me?”
“If you have the time,” I said. God smiled and
said, “My time is eternity and is enough to do everything;
what questions do you have for Me?”
“What surprises you the most about mankind?”
I asked.
God answered: “That they get bored of being children,
are in a 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 neither for the present nor the future. That they live
as if they will never die, and they die as if they had never
lived...”
God took my hands and we were silent for a while and then
I asked: “As parents, what are some of life’s
lessons you want our children to learn?”
God replied with a smile: “To learn that they cannot
make anyone love them but what they can do is let themselves
be loved. To learn that what is most valuable is not what
they have in their lives, but who they have in their lives.
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To learn that it is not good to
compare themselves to others for everyone is judged on their
own merits. To learn that a rich person is not the one who
has the most, but the one who needs the least. To learn that
it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons
we love, and that it takes many years to heal them. To learn
to forgive by practicing forgiveness. To learn that money
can buy everything except happiness. To learn that two people
can look at the same thing and see it very differently. To
learn that a true friend is someone who knows everything about
them...and likes them anyway. To learn that it is not always
enough that they be forgiven but that they have to forgive
themselves.”
I sat there for a while enjoying the moment. I thanked God
for His time and for all that He had done for me.
He replied and said “I am here 24 hours a day, and all
you have to do is ask for Me,” and with that He looked
into my eyes and whispered these words:
“My dear child, please remember that people will forget
what you said, people forget what you did, but people will
never forget how you made them feel….”
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