"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 to
ask 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 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's hands took mine and we were silent
for awhile and then I asked... "As a parent,
what are some of life's lessons you want
your children to learn?"

God replied with a smile: "To learn that
they cannot make anyone love them. What
they can do is to 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.
To learn that it is not good to compare
themselves to others.

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

To learn that it only takes a few seconds
to open profound wounds in a person one
loves, and that it may take many years to
heal them.

To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.
To learn that there are persons who love
them dearly, but simply do not know how to
express or show their feelings.

To learn that money can buy everything but
happiness.

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

To learn that it is not always enough
that they be forgiven by others, but that
they must also forgive themselves.

And to learn that I am here...Always."

~Author Unknown~