This is ‘Conversations With God’ by Neale Donald Walsch.
Do you know who's Neale?
- Yeah. - Who is he?
- He's from my class. - Yes...
And he's a penguin.
And we remember how he looks, Neale...
So Neale is a grown-up and he didn't have much fun in his life because he didn't know who he was.
He didn't have good relationship with his wife, his children and he didn't have work.
He writes here all about it and he says
that he used to write down what he's thinking, and at one point he says,
"I decided to write to God and ask God why all this life I'm not happy?"
It's a real story...
It was in 1992, many years before you were born.
So he was writing to God, "Why am I not happy with my life?"
Where's his mommy and his daddy?
His mommy and his daddy I think lived in a different place;
so they couldn't help him.
Why they couldn't help him?
Because he didn't ask for their help.
So God told him, "Do you really, really want to know?"
So he said, "Yes, I want to know why I'm not happy."
So God said, "OK, I'm going to tell you."
The first question Neale asked God is, "How do you speak to people and to whom do you speak?"
Because grown-ups think that God is speaking only to special people
or God stopped speaking 2,000 years ago.
- Neale, I like him to behave to me. - You what?
I let him... don't fight people.
Neale don’t fight people!... he's not fighting people, he's helping them...
So he asked God, "How do you speak to people?"
And God said, "I don't ‘speak’ to people mostly but I ‘communicate’."
What do you mean "I don't speak?"
You know, like you were reading with mommy the book with the pictures?
and this is a book with only words, see?
So God is saying if you speak with words, people misunderstand you,
because words are not direct, so God...
God says he speaks with pictures and then we will understand.
Exactly. God says, "I speak to all people, everyone. The question is, who listens?”
Not to whom he speaks because God is speaking to everyone.
Now many adults don't know it,
but in truth, God is speaking to many people; but he doesn't speak with words.
Why he doesn't speak with words?
Because words are open to misinterpretation; if you say one thing,
some people can understand it in one way, and other people can understand it in a different way.
But if you show a picture,
it's much more easy to understand. So God usually speaks with pictures...
and with emotions.
And why he speaks with pictures and emotions?
Because pictures and emotions are a direct representation of the message.
Now tell me, Yael, what's the difference between thoughts and…
You know it because you're a child.
I know it.
I don't want to read books anymore, I just want to play ‘snap’ cards.
Let's play snap cards.
You need to sit on your bottom, on the floor...
OK, we'll play snap cards.
You got one of those cards.
And now I'll give you some...