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 for their health”

“…that by thinking anxiously about the future they forget the present such that they live in either

The present nor future”

“…that they live as if they will never die and die as thought 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 lessons you want your children to learn?”

“…to learn they cannot make anyone love them. All they can do is let them 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 who has the most, but is one who needs the least”

“…to learn that there are people who love them dearly but simply do not yet 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 enough that they forgive one another but they must also forgive themselves”

“Thank u for the time,” I said humbly.

“…is there anything else you’d like your children to know?”

God smiled and said.

“…just know that I am here...”

“…always”

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