“To God: How did you get invented?”




“To God: How did you get invented?”



There’s a charming article in today’s Times by Alex Renton, a non-believer who sends his six-year-old daughter Lulu to a Scottish church primary school.

Her teachers asked her to write the following letter: “To God, How did you get invented?”

The Rentons were taken aback: “We had no idea that a state primary affiliated with a church would do quite so much God,” says her father. He could have told Lulu that, in his opinion, there was no God; or he could have pretended that he was a believer.

He chose to do neither, instead emailing her letter to the Scottish Episcopal Church (no reply), the Presbyterians (ditto) and the Scottish Catholics (a nice but theologically complex answer).
 For good measure, he also sent it to “The head of theology of the Anglican Communion, based at Lambeth Palace” – and this was the response:

Dear Lulu,
Your dad has sent on your letter and asked if I have any answers. It’s a difficult one! But I think God might reply a bit like this –

"Dear Lulu,
Nobody invented me – but lots of people discovered me and were quite surprised.
They discovered me when they looked round at the world and thought it was really beautiful or really mysterious and wondered where it came from.
They discovered me when they were very very quiet on their own and felt a sort of peace and love they hadn’t expected.
Then they invented ideas about me – some of them sensible and some of them not very sensible.
From time to time I sent them some hints – specially in the life of Jesus – to help them get closer to what I’m really like.
But there was nothing and nobody around before me to invent me.
Rather like somebody who writes a story in a book, I started making up the story of the world and eventually invented human beings like you who could ask me awkward questions..!"

And then he’d send you lots of love and sign off.
I know he doesn’t usually write letters, so I have to do the best I can on his behalf. Lots of love from me too.
-Archbishop Rowan 

I think this letter reveals a lot about the Archbishop of Canterbury’s sort of theology.
What the letter also tells us is that the Archbishop took the trouble to write a really thoughtful message – unmistakably his work and not that of a secretary – to a little girl.

“Well done, Rowan!” was the reaction of Alex Renton’s mother, and I agree.

source : Paulo Coelho's Blog

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A wonderful story. I have already read some time ago. It reminds me of another story. A good friend sent me. Unfortunately, I do not know the author ..

Lunch with God

A little boy wanted to meet God. He grabbed some cans of coke and chocolate bars in his rucksack and set out on the road. In a park, he saw an old woman sitting on a bench and watched the pigeons.

 
The boy sat down beside her and opened his backpack. When he wanted to get a Coke, he saw the hungry look in his neighbor. He took out a chocolate bar and gave it to the woman. Thankfully, she smiled at him – a wonderful smile...! To see that smile again offered her the boy drink a coke. She took it and smiled again, more radiant than before. So the two sat in the park all afternoon, ate candy bars and drinking Coke.

They spoke not a word. As it grew dark, the boy wanted to go home. After a few steps he stopped, walked back and hugged the woman. The gave him for her very best smile.


"What have you done today for beautiful, that you look so happy ": At home, he was asked by his mother.

The boy replied: "I have eaten lunch with God – and she has a wonderful smile..! "

The old woman had gone home where, her son asked her why she looked so happy.

And the old woman replied: "I have eaten lunch with God – and he is much younger than I thought."
I wish you all a wonderful day.


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Who Is God?

 
God is One. God is love. God is you. God is Me. God is the infinite intelligence that pervades all reality. God is the voice that whispers the truth in your heart. God is the eternal mother of 10,000 things. God is the unmanifested father of all eternity.

God is the sun that holds the planets with invisible force. God is the moon that pulls all the oceans into tides and flow. God is all the heavenly bodies that influence our body chemistry. God is the dancing electron at the heart of every body.

Who is God?
God is You. God is me. God is everyone and every body. God is the tiger who kills the deer, God is the deer who nourishes the tiger. God is the grass that feeds the deer. God is the tiger who dies into the earth to nourish the grass. God is all that your eyes can see. God is all that your heart can feel. God is the all around you. God is inside of you.

If you want to see God, look into the eyes of another human being. If you want to hear God, listen to the voice of the birds. If you want to touch God, touch someone you deeply love, someone you are willing to die for because their happiness is your happiness, if you touch that person, you will have touched God. If you want to feel God, feel your deepest driving desires. It is God speaking through you, asking you to take a step forward towards your personal destiny.

When you are lonely, know that God is inside of you, feeling your loneliness. When you are helpless, know that God is inside of you feeling your helplessness. When you cry out for help looking up in the sky, know that God is saying "but I AM YOU, I am inside of you, all you need to do is trust your self, you have the powers right there, all you need to do is believe in it". When you say "God show me your presence", God comes to you in 10,000 bodies talking to you directly, but most of the time we are busy looking at somewhere else hoping god would say something.

Who is God?
God is You. God is me. God is your lover. God is your enemy. God is the father that holds all the universes. God is the mother who manifests in 10,000 things. God is everyone, god is everything. God is all around. That is why god is invisible. Because God... IS!

~Shafin de Zane


~gauresh~