old, Danny Dutton of Chula Vista, CA, for his third  grade

homework assignment. The assignment was to explain God.

Wonder if any of us could do as well???

EXPLAIN GOD

One of God’s main jobs is making people.  He  makes them to

replace the ones that die, so there will be enough  people to

take care of things on earth. He doesn’t make grown-ups,

just  babies.  I think  because they are smaller and easier to

make.  That way He doesn’t have to take up His valuable

time teaching them  to talk and walk. He can just leave that

to mothers and fathers.”

God’s second most important job is listening to  prayers.  An

awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like  preachers

and things, pray at times beside bedtime.  God doesn’t have

time to listen to the radio or TV because of this.  Because

He  hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise

in His ears,  unless He has thought of a way to turn it off.”

God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere

which keeps Him pretty busy.  So you shouldn’t go wasting

His time by going over your Mom and Dad’s head asking for

something they said you couldn’t have.”

Atheists are people who don’t believe in God.  I  don’t think

there are any in Chula Vista.  At least there aren’t any who

come to our church.”

“Jesus is God’s Son.  He used to do all the hard work like

walking on water and performing miracles and trying to

teach the people who didn’t want to learn about God.  They

finally got tired  of Him preaching to them and they

crucified Him.  But He was good and kind, like His Father

and He told His Father that they didn’t know  what they

were doing and to forgive them and God said “O.K.” His Dad

(God) appreciated everything that He had done and all His

hard work on earth so He told Him He didn’t have to go out

on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven.

So He did.  And now He helps His Dad out by listening to

prayers and seeing things which are important for God to

take care of and which ones He can take care of Himself

without having to bother God.  Like a secretary, only more

important.”  You can pray anytime you want and they are

sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of

them is on duty all the time.”

“You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes

God happy, and if there’s anybody you want to make happy,

it’s God.  Don’t skip church to do something you think will be

more fun like going to the beach.  This is wrong. And besides

the sun doesn’t come out at the beach until noon anyway.”

If you don’t believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will

be very lonely, because your parents can’t go everywhere

with you, like to camp, but God can.  It is good to know He’s

around you when you’re scared in the dark or when you can’t

swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.”

But...you shouldn’t just always think of what God can do for

you. I figure God put me here and He can take me back

anytime He pleases.

And...that’s why I believe in God.