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December 2002
Dear Friends,
Last month I haphazardly assigned my sophomores students the
journal topic of writing a letter to any person of their choice.
Inevitably, many students wrote their best friends or parents.
Surprisingly, some students wrote God. In a predominately atheist
country, I did not expect anyone to even think of writing God.
But who am I to keep God's work in a box? Below I have copied,
word for word, three students' letters to God. As you read them,
please lift up these students in prayer. Two thousand years ago,
God revealed himself to humanity in the form of a child. It is
my prayer that this Christmas season he will again reveal himself
in very tangible ways to those who seek him. May you have a blessed
holiday.
Dear God,
How are you recently? First of all, I hope you have a good
time everyday.
Though I've never seen you, I know you are in existence and
you've kind-hearted. You are in the sky. You are the leader
of the universe. The world is full of evil and beauty and you
can see. I know you have an enexplicable strength.
You can change everything. I beg for help. I hope everybody
in the world are kind. They make our home beautiful. They won't
destroy our home any long. Or else, they will put out of existence
one day. At then, there will be nothing interesting in your
eyes. The world is active because of human being. I don't want
to see the being and the nature slaughtering each other. I beg
for help again. I hope it will come true. I want to see a fresh
sight.
Ok, stay well.
Yours, Audrey
Dear God,
I can't see you, but I always hear of you. When I was a little
girl, my grandmother told me that if I was in trouble, the God
would help me. So I was not afraid to do anything. I know you
would help me.
I asked my grandmother how the God help me. I can't see him.
My grandmother told me that you could see me. Really? God?
When I grow up, I know more and more about you. Sometimes I
hear of you from others. Sometimes I know your story from books.
My grandmother told me that at the begining of the world, ther
was no life on the earth. It's you who created the life- the
men, the flowers, the animals....
God, if you received the letter, can you let me see you?
Yours, Carlie
Dear God,
I don't know if you are really in existance, but I hope you
are. Can you achieve my three wishes?
First, I hope we'll have a peace world. You know the history
of the world, there had many wars, much deth and much separation.
Now, the war still happened in some countries, the historical
tragedy still happen. Once the world is peace, life will be
more beautiful, world will develop.
Second, I hope you to make people aware of the damage of pollution.
Water pollution lead to the shortage of water, death of the
lives in sea. Air pollution destroy the health of people, the
growth of crop.
Third, I wish all of people whom I loved and people who loved
me will be happy. Perhaps, I don't know the real maning of being
happy, but I hope all of the beautiful things suround them.
The world is beautiful because they are happy. Thank you, God.
Yours, Lisa
The 2002 Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 173
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