When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat - Webs

man sitting on a throne? Dozens of angels dancing around
him, her or it? God is God and is all things to all people.”
He gave the appearance of a man totally in control of
himself. His voice and tone were not in the least reprimanding,
but rather compassionate and kind. I didn’t know what to say
so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind. “How come,”
I asked, “I’m here with you, when there are many others
more deserving of an audience than I?”
“That's one of the problems,” he said. “Almost everyone
thinks that I'm unreachable, that I only speak to special
people at special times. Listen carefully: Everyone is special
to me. I speak to everyone, but not all listen. I appear to everyone
in many ways, but not all see me. Do you remember
that little child you gave some money to the other day? That
was me speaking to your heart and feelings. Do you remember
the time you stopped and helped an old man fix a flat
tire on the bridge? That was me again.”
“<strong>You</strong> mean that you care about little things like flat
tires?”
“Of course I care. And there are no little things, only
people who tend to look at things and call them little. Take a
rose, for example.” And as he said that, as if by magic, a
beautiful rose appeared in his hand. “Consider its intricacies.
Surely, not a little thing. I love roses. They brighten everyone’s
life. In fact, I love everything I’ve created.”
“Well, if you are God, why do you have an office in the
Big City? How is it that you're president and chairman of the
board of G & M Enterprises, anyway?”
“G & M stands for God and Man. It’s my ‘earth’ company.
What better place to have an office than in the Big City?
We have branches in almost every city. In every town and
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