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Treva Baker Seawright
Just a little message I would like to share. I hope everyone enjoys it.
So you would like to interview me?” God asked.
“If you have the time”, I said. And God smiled, “My time is eternity.” “What questions do you have for me?”
“What surprises you most about mankind?”
God answered, “They get bored with childhood, they rush to grow up, and then long to be children again.
“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 in the present nor the future. That they live as if they’ll never die, and die as though they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine and we were silent for a while.
And then I asked, “As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”
“To learn they can’t make others love them. All they can do is let themselves be loved. To learn that it is not good to compare themselves with 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 do not yet know how to express or show their feelings. To know that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently. To learn that its not enough that they forgive one another, but they must forgive themselves.
Thank you for your time, I said humbly. Is there is anything else you’d like your children to know?”
God smiled and said . . . “Just know that I’m here. Always.”
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