Dear God
When kids address The Man Upstairs, they don't beat around the bush.
Published: July/August 2005

Dear God,

Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.

Amanda

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Dear God,

Thank you for the baby brother, but what I asked for was a puppy. I never asked for anything before. You can look it up.

Joyce

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Dear Mr. God,

I wish you would not make it so easy for people to come apart. I had to have 3 stitches and a shot.

Janet

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God,

I read the Bible. What does beget mean? Nobody will tell me.

Love,

Alison

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Dear God,

How did you know you were God? Who told you?

Charlene

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Dear God,

Is it true my father won't get in Heaven if he uses his golf words in the house?

Anita

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Dear God,

I bet it's 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.

Nancy

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Dear God,

I like the story about Noah the best of all of them. You really made up some good ones. I like walking on water, too.

Glenn

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Dear God,

I am doing the best I can. Really.

Frank

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Dear God,

My Grandpa says you were around when he was a little boy. How far back do you go?
Love,

Dennis

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Dear God,

Do you draw the lines around the countries? If you don't, who does?

Nathan

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Dear God,

Did you mean for giraffes to look like that or was it an accident?

Norma

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Dear God,

In Bible times, did they really talk that fancy?

Jennifer

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Dear God,

How come you did all those miracles in the old days and don't do any now?

Billy

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Dear God,

Please send Dennis Clark to a different summer camp this year.

Peter

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Dear God,

Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they each had their own rooms. It works out OK with me and my brother.

Larry

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Dear God,

I keep waiting for spring, but it never did come yet. What's up? Don't forget.

Mark

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Dear God,

My brother told me about how you are born, but it just doesn't sound right. What do you say?

Marsha

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Dear God,

Is Reverend Coe a friend of yours, or do you just know him through the business?

Donny

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Dear God,

Do not think anybody could be a better God than you. Well, I just want you to know that. I am not just saying that because you are already God.

Charles

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Dear God,

It is great the way you always get the stars in the right place. Why can't you do that with the moon?

Jeff

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Dear God,

I didn't think orange went with purple until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday night. That was really cool.

Thomas



Article reprinted from the July/August 2005 issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. Read more at www.satevepost.org, © Copyright 2005 Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, All rights reserved