A friend of mine gave me this link: Interview with God. Oh, very nice! Sometimes I do interview with people, but I never do interview with God. I click the link and I feel that I did a ‘live interview’, on the air!

Interview with God has been published. The author is Reatea Strickland. She is a Web designer and developer at the University of Alabama and a Sunday school teacher. She lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with her husband, Steve, and daughters, Jessie and Katie.

On May 29, 2001 Reata Strickland posted a version of Interview with God on a local church Web site in Alabama, with no announcements or advertising. Within a week 500,000 people had heard about it and taken a look. Soon, the numbers reached well into the millions, and they have been growing steadily ever since. God’s message, which gently points out our failings while reminding us of what really matters in life, has become an astonishing success, reaching out and touching people around the world.

Another link is in here.

INTERVIEW WITH GOD

I dreamed I had an interview with God.

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

“If you have the time,” I said.

God smiled. “My time is eternity.” “What questions do you have in mind for 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 in neither the present nor the future.

“That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived…”

God’s hands 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?”

God replied with a smile:

“To learn that they cannot make anyone love them. All the can do is let themselves be loved.”

“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 persons person se loves, and that it can 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 have not yet learned how to express or show their feelings.”

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

Thank you Reata, for the very inspiring interview