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An interview with God
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With my newly acquired title as a journalist, I decided to strike
a high
note.......I asked God for an Interview. To my
surprise, HE granted my
request!
"Come in," God said to me,
"so,
you would like to interview Me?"
"If you have the time," I said.
He smiled through His beard and said:
"My
time is called eternity and is
enough to do everything; what questions do you have
in mind to ask me?"
"None that are new to you. What's
the one thing that surprises you most about mankind?"
He 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
then they die as if they had
never lived.
His hands took mine and we were silent.
After a long period, I said, "May
I ask you another question?"
He
replied with a smile.
"As
a Father, what would you ask your children to do for the new
year?"
"To learn that
they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to
let themselves be loved.
To learn that it takes years to build trust,
and a few seconds to destroy
it.
To learn that what is most valuable is not what they
have in their lives,
but who they have in their lives.
To learn that it is not good to compare themselves
to others. There will
always be others better or worse than they are.
To learn that a rich person is not one who has
the most, but is one who
needs the least.
To learn that they should control their attitudes,
otherwise their
attitudes will control them.
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 there are persons that love them
dearly, but simply do not
know how to show their feelings.
To learn that money can buy everything but
happiness.
To learn that while at times they may be
entitled to be upset, that does
not give them the right to upset those around
them.
To learn that great dreams do not require
great wings, but landing gear.
To learn that true friends are scarce, whoever
has found one has found a
true treasure.
To learn that it is not always enough that
they be forgiven by others, but
that they forgive themselves.
To learn that they are masters of what they
keep to themselves and slaves
of what they say.
To learn that they shall reap what they plant; if
they plant gossip they
will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will
harvest happiness.
To learn that true happiness is not to achieve
their goals but to learn to
be satisfied with what they already achieved.
To learn that happiness is a decision. They
decide to be happy with what
they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of
what they lack.
To learn that two people can look at the same
thing and see something
totally different.
To learn that those who are honest with
themselves without considering the
consequences go far in life.
To learn that even though they may think they
have nothing to give, when a
friend cries with them, they find the strength
to appease the pain.
To learn that by trying to hold on to love
ones, they very quickly push
them away; and by letting go of those they
love, they will be side by side
forever.
To learn that they can never do something
extraordinary for Me to love
them; I simply do.
To learn that the shortest distance they could be
from Me is called a prayer.
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