“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,
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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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.  "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.  http://youtu.be/x8b8v3CoLoY
  
~gauresh~
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“To God: How did you get invented?”
“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,
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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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. "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. http://youtu.be/x8b8v3CoLoY
~gauresh~
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