CHURCH YOUTH DAILY E-MAIL ARCHIVE


CHILDREN'S LETTERS TO GOD
(27/4/2001)


Author unknown

Dear GOD, Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don't you just keep the ones you have? -Jane

Dear GOD, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother. -Larry

Dear GOD, If You watch me in church on Sunday, I'll show you my new shoes. -Mickey

Dear GOD, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it. -Nan

Dear GOD, In school they told us what you do. Who does it when you are on vacation? -Jane

Dear GOD, I read the Bible. What does "beget" mean? Nobody will tell me. -Love, Alison

Dear GOD, Are you really invisible or is it just a trick? -Lucy

Dear GOD, Did You mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident? -Norma

Dear GOD, Who draws the lines around the countries? -Nan

Dear GOD, I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that okay? -Neil

Dear GOD, What does it mean you are a Jealous God? I thought you had everything. -Jane

Dear GOD, Did you really mean "do unto others as they do unto you"? Because if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother. -Darla

Dear GOD, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. -Joyce

Dear GOD, It rained for our whole vacation and is my father mad! He said some things about you that people are not supposed to say, but I hope you will not hurt him anyway. Your friend, (But I am not going to tell you who I am).

Dear GOD, Why is Sunday school on Sunday? I thought it was supposed to be our day of rest. -Tom L.

Dear GOD, Please send me a pony. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up. -Bruce

Dear GOD, If we come back as something - please don't let me be Mary Horton because I hate her. -Denise

Dear GOD, If you give me a genie like Aladdin, I will give you anything you want, except my money or my chess set. -Raphael

Dear GOD, You don't have to worry about me. I always look both ways. -Dean

Dear GOD, I think the stapler is one of your greatest inventions. -Ruth M.

Dear GOD, I think about you sometimes even when I'm not praying. -Elliott

Dear GOD, Of all the people who work for you I like Noah and David the best. -Rob

Dear GOD, My brother told me about being born but it doesn't sound right. They're just kidding, aren't they? -Marsha

Dear GOD, I would like to live 900 years like the guy in the Bible. -Love, Chris

Dear GOD, We read Thomas Edison made light. But in Sunday school they said you did it. So I bet he stole your idea. -Sincerely, Donna

Dear GOD, The bad people laughed at Noah - "You made an ark on dry land you fool." But he was smart, he stuck with you. That's what I would do. -Eddie

Dear GOD, I do not think anybody could be a better GOD. Well, I just want you to know but I am not just saying that because you are GOD already. -Charles

Dear GOD, I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday. That was cool. -Eugene


Side Issues
From "Expiriences in Life", By H.H Pope Shenouda III

There may be a person who speaks to you on some subject or other, but who cannot concentrate on it and infact digresses to numerous related issues. You try to get him to stick to the subject, but you can't because he just keeps on branching out into endless side issues.

You may enter into a discussion on a point of doctrine with someone, but he departs from it to other points. Whenever you reply to one he digresses to another, and it is as if you are in front of a vast open forum of discussion and outengaged in discussing a definite point !

A person may sit down with you to tell you off concerning some problem between you, but whilst doing so he touches on side issues which make the original problem look small. And these additional criticisms leave pain in the soul, which in turn needs to be set at rest!

People need to concentrate on what they are saying, and not go rambling freely on minor issues. The same also applies to writing, making reports and preaching...

Quite often people gather together to talk without having a fixed topic for their conversation, so their talking tends to be just haphazard, on side issues or endless secondary matters which are not connected...!