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A Worm's Eye View A teacher in San Francisco set her class the rather ambitious homework assignment: to write a paper to "explain God". This was the essay handed in by 8 year-old Danny Dutton: One of God's main jobs is making people. God makes these to put in place of the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things here on earth. God doesn't make grownups. Just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way God doesn't have to take up valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. God can just leave that to their fathers and mothers. I think it works out pretty good. God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, as some people, like preachers and things, pray at other times besides bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV on account of this. As God hears everything, not only prayers, there must be a terrible lot of noise going on in God's ears, unless he has thought of a way to turn it off. God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere. Which keeps God pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting God's time by going over your parents' heads and asking for something they said you couldn't have. Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and doing miracles and trying to teach people about God who didn't want to learn. They finally tired of him preaching to them and they crucified him. But he` was good and kind like God, and he told God that they didn't know what they were doing, and to forgive them and God said: "OK!" His Dad (God) appreciated everything Jesus had done, all his hard work on earth, so God told him he didn't have to go out on the road any more. He could stay in Heaven. So he did. And now he helps God out by listening to prayers and seeing which things are important for God to take care of and which ones he can take care of himself, without having to bother God with it. Like a secretary, only more important, of course. You can pray anytime you want, and they are sure to hear you because they've got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time. You should always go to Sunday school because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip Sunday school to do something you think will be more fun, like going to the beach. This is wrong ! And besides, the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon, anyway. Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any who come to our church. If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It's good to know God's around when you're scared of the dark, or when you can't swim very good and you get thrown in real deep water by big kids. But you shouldn't always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and God can take me back anytime he pleases. And that's why I believe in God. (With acknowledgements to the "New Christian Herald') Published in the August 1997 edition of the Church Magazine
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