AN INTERVIEW WITH GOD July 8, 2009
Posted by Administrator in : Articles , add a commentI dreamed I had an interview with God.
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“So you would like to interview me?” God asked
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“If you have the time” I said.
God smiled
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“My time is eternity” , “What questions do you have in mind for me?”
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“What surprises you most about humankind?…”
God answered…
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“That they get bored with childhood. They rush to grow up and then long to be children again.”
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“That they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.”
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“That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such that they live in neither the present nor the future.”
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“That they live as if they will never die, and die as if they had never lived.”
God’s hand took mine and we were silent for awhile
And then I asked…
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“As a parent, what are some of life’s lessons you want your children to learn?”
God replied with a smile
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“To learn they cannot make anyone love them. What they can do is let themselves be loved.”
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“To learn that it is not good to compare themselves to others.”
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“To learn that a rich person is not one who has the most, but is one who needs the least.”
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“To learn that it only takes a few seconds to open profound wounds in persons we love, and it takes many years to heal them.”
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“To learn to forgive by practicing forgiveness.”
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“To learn that there are persons who love them dearly, but simply do not know how to express or show their feelings.”
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“To learn that two people can look at the same thing and see it differently.”
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“To learn that it is not always enough that they be forgiven by others. But that they must forgive themselves.”
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“And to learn that I am here always.”
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Milwaukee Armenians observe Martyrs’ Day with Morgenthau film May 2, 2009
Posted by Administrator in : News , add a commentby David Luhrssen
Milwaukee, – As part of the Milwaukee-area Armenian community’s observation of Martyrs’ Day, filmmaker and artist Apo Torosyan screened his documentary The Morgenthau Story on April 26 at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church in Greenfield.
The film by the Boston-based director affords a glimpse into the life of the U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire at the time of the Armenian Genocide. As a Jew who immigrated with his parents to America from Germany, Henry Morgenthau, Sr., was acutely aware of the problems faced by minority groups, and worked tirelessly to alert the world to the massacres of Armenians and Greeks by the Young Turks. His records and diplomatic dispatches, housed in the Library of Congress, constitute one of the most important accounts of the Genocide.
The film largely consists of Torosyan’s interviews with two of the ambassador’s grandsons, television producer Henry Morgenthau III and New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, along with his great-granddaughter, Pamela Steiner. All three of Morgenthau’s descendents comment on his commitment to the Armenian cause and the prevention of what he called “race extermination” in the future.
Born in Istanbul, Mr. Torosyan witnessed the 1955 pogrom against Armenians and Greeks in the city. Although he immigrated to the U.S. in 1968, he has maintained close ties with the Armenian-Turkish community and with the Turkish intelligentsia. Commenting on the funeral for Hrant Dink, which drew more participants than any funeral in Turkey since the death of Ataturk, Mr. Torosyan said that the assassination of the prominent journalist was a wake-up call for many Turks dissatisfied with their own government’s human rights record. More and more Turkish intellectuals are calling for Turkey to acknowledge the Genocide.
Mr. Torosyan sees many glimmers of hope as Turkey begins to wrestle with the meaning of its own history and the unresolved role of minorities in Turkish society. Echoing remarks by one of Amb. Morgenthau’s grandsons, he pointed out that the United States has had many dark chapters in its history, including slavery and genocide against Native Americans, yet the country has moved on and grown by confronting the past. Mr. Torosyan’s presentation was a reminder of the ethical obligations of humanity to learn from the tragedy of history.
Prior to Torosyan’s presentation, Greenfield alderwoman Shirley Saryan presented St. John’s parish with an April 24 proclamation from Greenfield mayor Mike Neitzke acknowledging the Armenian Genocide.
