God’s sweetness
One day, the teacher, wanting to know if everyone had studied the requested lesson, asked the children who could explain who God is.
One of the children raised his arm and said: God is our Father, He made the earth, the sea and everything that is in it; He made us as children of Him. The teacher, wanting to find more answers, went further. How do you know that God exists if you have never seen him?
The room fell silent all. Pedro, a very shy boy, raised his hand and said: My mother told me that God is like the sugar in my milk that she makes every morning. I don’t see the sugar that is inside the cup of milk, but if she doesn’t put the sugar in, the milk is tasteless. God exists and he is always in our midst, we just don’t see him. But if He is not there, our life is tasteless. The teacher smiled and said: Very well Pedro, I have taught you many things, but you, Pedro, have taught me something deeper than everything I already knew. Now I know that God is our sugar and that he is sweetening our lives every day.
She kissed him and was surprised by that child’s response.
Sometimes, reasoning out the existence of God does not consist of providing great explanations or complex demonstrations. Wisdom is not in knowledge, because there are many theories, but sweetness like God’s does not yet exist, not even in the best sugars.
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