Letters to God 6

Dear God,


Before you strike me down for writing the Devil, please hear me out. I apologize; I turned my back on you when I should have talked to you in the beginning. I thought about some of the things that I said to the Devil concerning you and realized that I am the reason why my life is what it is. Everyone gets one life, and its up to us what we do with it. God, its just that I sometimes get so caught up in living that I neglect the beauty of life. I woke up the other day I realized something so majestic, so sublime, that I almost broke into tears. I realized that it was a new day. As long as I am I living, there will always be a new day. I don’t know what the future holds, but I know it’s not predetermined. Nothing is the same; everything is new.

I realized that my new day may be similar to my old day, but there will always be something new and different about it. I woke up this morning and realized that I didn’t get up the exact way I got up the day before. The day before I woke up and yawned, but today I woke up and begin to sneeze. The day before I went directly to the bathroom after leaving my bed, but today I had to go outside because I needed close the window on my car since it was about to rain. The day before, I took my normal route to work because there was little traffic, but today I had to take an alternative route because there was a major accident on the freeway. Now these events may seem minor to most people, but they truly made realize that life is never the same. One minute you are up and the next minute you are down. That’s just the name of the game. Who’s to say that you will not go up again?

God, I have many questions for you concerning life, but if you answered them all what would be the point of living. I guess it is not always a bad thing not knowing an answer to a question. I guess that’s why illusionists and magicians are so popular in this world; they are able to perform an activity that leaves us questioning how it was done. Once we understand how an illusion was accomplished, the trick is no longer of any interest to us. Maybe if we understood everything of this world, and everything about you, we would lose interest in you too. God, there is a lot about you and this world that I may never understand, but I think life will continue to be interesting trying to figure it out.


Sincerely,

Robert Harwin