Interview With God: Are you afraid?

DJ reminded me again a few weeks ago about the "Interview with God".  So the other morning I read it, and was pierced by the line... "it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them".  God's answer to me is His Spirit, the Comforter...my Advocate (and yours).   

Yesterday at work I had an instant message conversation with my purchasing agent, while we had a telephone conversation with a vendor.  It was the closest experience I can recall to talking with God...because as we talked with the vendor on the phone, the purchasing agent and I would send direction and encouragement to each other using text messages simultaneously about where the conversation should go.  He helped me, but sought my input, and encouraged me to carry parts of the conversation without forcing anything.  It was wonderful being not just a servant, or even a client, but a partner.

Doesn't God want that too, as a Father?  Preventing us from going too far, but encouraging us to go father in the ordinary situations of life....all within the boundaries of choice and love (not law). My boss told me yesterday, if you feel you are about 70% "right" or more, you should go for it. If you make a mistake, I will back you up and we will learn from it.  God knows my weaknesses.

Are you afraid of mistakes you've made, others made or might make?  Does that keep you from hearing God?

 

 

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?...”
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 hand 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 they cannot make anyone love them.
What they 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 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 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
be forgiven by others. But that they must
forgive themselves.”

“And to learn that I am here always.”