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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460685" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0218 Paradise Known</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O God - or may I call you Lord? –<br>I remember when I was a child, <br>You were my best friend, one who knew me<br>better than I knew myself; <br>and so I talked to You all the time, <br>especially when I’d been naughty; <br>then later on, it was taught me<br>that I’m made in Your image – that feels good… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know, just as all children do, <br>what Paradise is, and where: <br>when the sun is out, <br>it’s in that wood beyond the field, <br>where I feel most myself; <br>but not quite out of sight of home; <br>and lots of other places just like that; <br>then when the sun goes in, I go in too, <br>and Paradise is - when I’m tired and fed, <br>and then all nice and read to, tucked up in bed; <br>and Paradise is in my head.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, I read in Genesis<br>how, out of Your immortal bliss, <br>the way You did it all; <br>and so, since we’re good friends<br>and I’m made in Your image, <br>I have some questions: You did a brilliant job<br>with fields and woods and animals<br>and human beings – well, some of them, the ones I like…<br>and it makes good sense<br>to have Adam there to look after it all, and to enjoy it; <br>and a nice idea too to have Eve as his companion –<br>who else could do the cooking while he’s out at work, <br>or remind him of the jobs to do around the house? <br>and if Adam had to have the babies too, <br>he wouldn’t then be able to go out and work as well…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why couldn’t You have left it just like that? <br>you must have guessed that when grown-ups say<br>‘You’re not to eat the apples on that tree! ’<br>then you want to do just that, <br>not for the apples but<br>because you want to know<br>just why you shouldn’t do that anyway? <br>I mean, it’s human, isn’t it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if You don’t mind my saying this, <br>throwing them out of Paradise, <br>that seems a bit severe for such a crime? <br>couldn’t You have let them off, first time? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My teacher says ‘it’s all symbolic’ – that the message is<br>just to be ourselves, and not divide the world<br>into the ‘good’ and ‘bad’, <br>or always split our mind in two<br>or to think we know too much– <br>(did you tell my teacher that?) : <br>and that there are some of Your laws<br>which we must keep, which have just cause; <br>well, I’ll go along with that; <br>I never wanted – afterwards – to be naughty, anyway; <br>I’ve talked toYou about this often, and explained…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’d like to think that when Adam and Eve<br>realised what they’d lost, and then said sorry, <br>they didn’t have to go around in guilt and sin<br>(Like miserable old Auntie Min..) <br>and, if Paradise is lost by us, but yet that’s known, <br>we can then return to what we own? <br>‘And they all lived happily ever after’<br>is what the old storybooks all tell me…<br>or is there perhaps some hidden clue, <br>like, we often ‘grow up’ and forget about You? …</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My teacher says I’ve ‘simplified’ –<br>but didn’t You say, ‘Be as a child’? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Lord, that’s how it seems to me; <br>and I’m Your child; would You agree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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I remember when I was a child, 
You were my best friend, one who knew me
better than I knew myself; 
and so I talked to You all the time, 
especially when I’d been naughty; 
then later on, it was taught me
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