written by an 8 year old boy from California, for his third grade
homework assignment to “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 here 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 besides bedtime.

God doesn’t have time to listen to the radio or TV on account of
this. God sees everything and hears everthing and is everywhere,
which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn’t go wasting His time by
going over your parent’s head asking for something they said you
couldn’t have.

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 OK.

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, of course.

You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to hear 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, 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 very good 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.