Several months ago, a friend of mine was talking to me about a conversation she had with her children around the dinner table. Her 6-year-old had just started Christian Education at school and asked if God really did make all those planets and stars. She began to reinforce this when her 11-year-old, who has been learning in science about the makeup of the universe, piped up, "No he didn't. It was made by a big bang." He then began describing molecules and atoms and evolution. She was at a loss and didn't know what to tell him. I said to her. "Well, I would just ask him where he thinks the Big Bang came from and who caused it."
Some time after that, I was thinking about all the troubles in the world. It made me sad as I'm sure it makes God sad to see the choices that we humans make. I wondered if people believe in the same God that I believe in, so as I only had a scrap of paper, I started writing down points about the God that I believe in. I kept it in my purse for a long time because I was too lazy to put it on my computer. Well, now here it is. This is the God that I believe in. Please feel free to add points in the comments about what kind of God you believe in.
- Loves us more than we love Him
- Wants us to be like Him
- Loves all of His children equally
- Allows all His children to have an opportunity to return to Him
- Makes everything right and fair in the end, even if it isn't while on earth
- Makes us figure things out for ourselves
- Helps us be stronger by giving us hard things to overcome
- Won’t give up on us
- Helps us when we ask
- Gives us encouragement, enlightenment and peace, all rewards for doing what is right. But, he won't take away pain, suffering and sorrow because these are all necessary emotions just as fulfillment, joy and contentment are
- Gives us commandments and laws to follow and prophets to teach us
- Wants us to love and serve each other
- Gives us each different talents, abilities and weaknesses to use to strengthen ourselves and others and make our world diverse and interesting
- Gives us our agency and independence to choose what we will do
This is really what I want for my children too. I think our Heavenly Father wants for His children what we want for our children. Many of my beliefs come from my religion (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). If you want to know more, click here www.mormon.org.
