I dreamed I had an Interview with god 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 for me? What surprises you most about humankind? Go 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 By thinking anxiously about the future That 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 hand took mine and we were silent for a while And then I asked … As the creator of people what are some of life’s lessons you want them to learn? God replied with a smile To learn they cannot make anyone love them What they can do is let themselves be loved learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most But is one who needs the least To learn that it takes only a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love And it takes 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 two people can look at the same thing and see it differently To learn that it is not always enough that they are forgiven by others They must forgive themselves And to learn that I am here