I was e-mailed this and thought I would share it:
With my newly acquired title as a journalist, I decided to strike a high
> note.
>
> "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 they die as if they never 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 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 practising 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 a landing
> gear to achieve.
>
> To learn that true friends are scarce, he/she who 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 loved 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 even though the word "love" has many different
> meanings, it loses value when it is overstated.
>
> 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 the
> distance of a prayer."
>
>
> "The soul would have no rainbows if the eyes had no tears."
> --- Barbara Johnson
>
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