{"id":96,"date":"2006-08-27T17:30:25","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T17:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2006-08-27T17:30:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T17:30:25","slug":"is-god-real-daddy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/is-god-real-daddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is God real, daddy  ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late in the night<br \/>\nI hold your little hand in mine<br \/>\nwe lie in bed as u stare at the ceiling<br \/>\nwhat is God, Daddy<br \/>\nis God real ?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nof course my love<br \/>\nGod is real<br \/>\nGod is love<br \/>\nbut does God exist, Daddy<br \/>\nor is he in my imagination ?<br \/>\nboth, my love<br \/>\nGod is real<br \/>\nand in your imagination<br \/>\nGod is a feeling<br \/>\nan emotion<br \/>\nthe most powerful emotion in the world<br \/>\nGod is love<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand, daddy<br \/>\ndo u love your little white bunny<br \/>\nthat you cuddle up with every night ?<br \/>\nYes, daddy<br \/>\nIs the bunny real, or<br \/>\nis it a doll ?<br \/>\nIt is a doll, daddy<br \/>\nBut in your arms at night,<br \/>\nyour love for the bunny is real ?<br \/>\nYes, daddy<br \/>\nThat love,<br \/>\nmy love<br \/>\nis God<br \/>\nfor God can make<br \/>\nanything real<br \/>\nif there is love<br \/>\nDid God make me<br \/>\nand you and mummy ?<br \/>\nYes my love,<br \/>\nGod is like a vast  ocean<br \/>\nand all of us are drops<br \/>\nfrom that ocean<br \/>\nwhich makes you God too<br \/>\nAnd mummy ?<br \/>\nYes mummy too<br \/>\nand everything you see<br \/>\nand hear<br \/>\nand feel<br \/>\nand imagine<br \/>\nis God<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t understand, daddy<br \/>\nNeither do I, my love<br \/>\nhow do I tell u<br \/>\nthat God is not an answer<br \/>\nbut a Question<br \/>\nand always will be ?<br \/>\nHow do I tell u,<br \/>\nthat you knew God<br \/>\nbefore<br \/>\nthe world is teaching you<br \/>\nto define everything ?<br \/>\nHow do I tell u<br \/>\nthat your Daddy<br \/>\ndoes not know anything<br \/>\nbut that God is the connection<br \/>\nbetween the real and imagined ?<br \/>\nHow do I tell u<br \/>\nthat God is Love<br \/>\na Love<br \/>\nthat holds the entire Universe<br \/>\nin an eternal embrace ?<br \/>\nShekhar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s late in the night I hold your little hand in mine we lie in bed as u stare at the ceiling what is God, Daddy is God real ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is God real, daddy ? 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