God speaks to us

I asked God an important question: What surprises you in the humankind?

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 in the future nor in the present.

That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they have never lived.

As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?

To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.

To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is to let themselves be loved.

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

To learn that it only takes 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 deeply, 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 be forgiven by others but that they must forgive themselves.