If I Were

God, what a strange thought that is, to be the ultimate I Am of the universe. What powers I would have, to both help and hinder humanity, but that is not what I would do.

No, my plan would be as it was written that man takes what I have provided and do with it what he will. I have given him a brain to use and to think rationally. Up here we still call it free choice and free will. Down there they say, damned if you do and damned if you don't.

As to powers, then I would say they have always worked, for I did create both Adam and Eve and I did create all life, which now is taken over in a multitudes of births over the eons, so yes, they would look no differently, including all the animals, and both fish and fowl.

But were there one thing I would change, is to keep sickness out of people, but I cannot do that for it would upset the balance of the timeline. People must die so that others can be born.

As to praising me, again, that is free choice and free will. You decide, but know and understand this, when the day of judgement falls upon your passing, your life will be accounted for in both good and bad. Do I want them to think highly of me? Of course, I do, for the world holds all my children, but like most children, they don't listen and want to go their own way. So be it. One thing I have always hoped for is that passing time makes them somewhat wiser as they age. Learn their mistakes and correct them. But, my children, it may take several mistakes both large and small before they figure out everything to give themselves the true life they were meant for.

Finally, as to what is moral; making the right choices and administer them to your life. Both up here and down there, the saying is the same, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." But keep in mind, if you are threatened, bullied and beaten, it also means do not strike out in anger. For there is another saying that started up here and traveled down there.

"Revenge is bitter-sweet, but mercy is ever-lasting."

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I have to admit, pretending to be God for five minutes was interesting, but I wouldn't want his job.