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Semeia
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Date Joined Aug 2001
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| Posted 10/9/2003 6:11 PM (GMT -6) |   | My daughter saw me reading the board tonight and asked if she could "make a post". It seems that the board is closed to new members, so we weren't able to sign her up. She asked if I would post it for her, so here is her unedited (well, okay, I changed "there" to "their" when she refused to fix it, saying, "Mom, what do you expect - I'm an eight-year-old!") and unabridged post:
I am Iconoclast’s and Semeia’s eight-year-old daughter and my name is Peacemaker.
Nobody knows how God was born. Nobody knows the future. Everybody makes mistakes. No matter what, you’ll make a mistake in your life. Every day you make about five mistakes. Nobody really knows what’s inside a heart, except everybody knows that in every heart there is peace and love. Every child is born very special. All that I just said maybe true might not be true, some might be true some might not. Nobody Knows. Except for God.
What does God look like? You might find out what god looks likes when you fall down and your soul goes to peace in heaven. You might snuggle up with god at night. You might play catch with god after lunch. Does god have a normal name like Paul, Andrew, or Eric? Do you find out in heaven? You don’t really know about Gods life.
When people say cruel and mean things to others their heart crumbles into hurtfulness. When people say sorry to people that they said mean things to their hearts straighten up but still have wrinkles and bad memories of the hurtful things people had said to them. In my class my teacher cut out a heart and we said mean things to the heart and she would crumble up the heart and rip it when we said bad things to it and when we said sorry she straightened it up but there were still wrinkles and tears in the heart from what we said.
Dear Greg,
My mom told me what you said about natural evil. This is what I learned in pre-school about the circle of life: Wild animals eat other animals to survive. But they are only eating other animals because they need to stay healthy and they are WILD animals. When trees die and rot they are actually helping nature. When trees actually die down fully it makes the soil richer and when a new tree grows the tree is richer. I actually learned this in second and third grade. But still you need to go back to pre-school  . I think God made a wonderful and beautiful world!! I am sad when animals die but I understand.
Love,
Peacemaker
P.S. I hope I didn’t crumble up your heart when I said that you should go back to pre-school. It was a joke.
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Springs
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| Posted 10/9/2003 6:46 PM (GMT -6) | | Hi Peacemaker!
That was a great post. I especially liked the part about the crinkled hearts. Thanks for sharing that with us. I thought your joke was funny. 
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Electra
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| Posted 10/10/2003 7:14 AM (GMT -6) | | Dear Peacemaker,
Welcome to our discussion. Thank you for sharing what you learned in your class about how hurt tears and crumbles our hearts, but forgiveness straightens them up.
Peacemakers know how good it feels to help other people and ourselves straighten up crumbled hearts. Even though lots of people say that we should forget once we forgive, I think you're right that the wrinkles stay. It's ok to remember what happened, but now instead of feeling hurt all over again, we feel healed. That's why I think Jesus still had wounds on his hands and feet after the cross. He showed them to the disciples because he wanted them to remember what happened to him, but to be reassured that it was ok now.
Here's what I think about the circle of life. God created the circle to bring more and more life to creatures. But some people want to hurt God. They aren't strong enough to hurt God directly, so they hurt God's creatures because they know God cares about them and he'll be hurt too. They try to turn God's circle of life into a viscious circle by forcing creatures to get life from other creatures. Death became a part of the circle that God created for life. But even when the circle is viscious, God is at work to bring life out of it, like with your example of the tree that dies and makes the soil richer.
I agree with you that God made a wonderful and beautiful world! And even when people hurt the world, God is still at work to bring wonder and beauty out of it. God offers forgiveness to the people who hurt others and healing to the people who are hurt so we can all be a part of changing viscious parts of the circle into the circle of life God created it to be.
So what do you think, should I go back to preschool? I wouldn’t mind that at all! It sounds like you have a very good teacher, and I’m sure I would learn from her too. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your heart with us.
Love,
Electra
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