[SoothingDave]

God, the parent, is but a small part of God, the Creator. But it's all you seem to want to see.

Wow! Completely not the direction I thought you would come from. Wow.

The Lord's Prayer is our model. Kinship with the Lord is our only hope. Wow.

SD

[Dr. Eckleburg]

But I DID expect you to equate the entire human race with your daughter, and God with you.

I've come to expect the massive limitations you put on God.

Man/woman as the disobediant child -- who eventually grows up, all on her own, to work her salvation.

I used to believe like you, Dave. Then I went back to the Bible and found out that God is actually more than my father, your father, Santa Claus, Uncle Sam or Mother Earth.

All the words are there in front of you. I wish you God's guidance in reading them.

Gotta go.