1. Interview with God

2. I dreamed I had an interview with God.

3. “So you would like to interview me?”
God asked

4. “If you
have the time”
I said.

5. God smiled
“My time is eternity”
“What questions do you
have in mind for me?”

6. “What surprises you most about humankind?...”
God answered...

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

8. “That they lose their health
to make money
and then lose their money
to restore their health.”

9. “That by thinking anxiously
about the future,
they forget the present,
such that they live in neither
the present nor the future.”

10. That they live as if they will never die,
and die as if they had never lived.”

11. God’s hand took mine
and we were silent for awhile
And then I asked...

12. “As a parent,
what are some of
life’s lessons
you want your
children to learn?”
God replied with a smile

13. “To learn they cannot
make anyone love them.
What they can do
is let themselves be loved.”

14. “To learn that it is
not good
to compare
themselves
to others.”

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

16. “To learn that
it only takes
a few seconds
to open profound
wounds in persons
we love,

17. And it
takes many
years to
heal them.”

18. “To learn to forgive by
practicing forgiveness.”

19. “To learn that there are
persons who love them dearly,
but simply do not know how
to express or show
their feelings.”

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

21. But that they must
forgive themselves.”
“To learn that it is not always enough
that they be forgiven by others.

22. “And to learn that I am here
always.”