What Is God? A Simple Explanation for Children

For the parents : This text offers a simple way to introduce the idea of God, presenting it as the life present in everything, rather than as a person or a belief to accept. It speaks to children through concrete, relatable images, allowing for an intuitive understanding without relying on abstract concepts.

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What Is God?

A Simple Explanation for Children

In a tone close to a gentle story, it blends simplicity, light humor, and direct experience, opening the door to a natural perception of the world. A subtle note of caution is also included—not to create fear, but to gently raise awareness of how people can react, while preserving the overall softness of the text.

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What is God? God is not a man. It’s the life that is in everything: in animals, plants… and even in rocks, stones, and mountains.

Trees, grass, and flowers—we can see they’re alive, but they don’t move very much, or very fast… except when the wind blows hard.

In everything that exists, there is something that makes it alive. We can call that God. But be careful—God is infinite. You can’t put it somewhere, like in a box, or say it’s only here or there.

It’s like a drop of water from the ocean: it’s already ocean water. There are no fish in it; a drop is too small for a fish, even a tiny one.

This life that is everywhere is intelligent, but it doesn’t speak and it doesn’t write. God has no mouth to speak and no hands to write, because God is not a person.

Sometimes, for no reason, we feel good. Calm. As if everything is in its right place. Nothing special is happening, and yet it feels gentle. When that happens, we are already feeling God.

God doesn’t force anyone. Everyone does what they can, what they want. But when we get closer to that life, we feel lighter—like when we love… and we smile, looking a little silly. But it’s okay to look a little silly.

If we love ourselves more than anything else, we become all puffed up with pride, like a balloon… and then we might explode! Well, not really explode—that’s just for fun. Jean de La Fontaine wrote a story like that: The Frog Who Wanted to Be as Big as the Ox.

Since there is God in us, just as in everything, we can sometimes see it like a light. When we close our eyes, it’s easier to see.

We can also hear it… God doesn’t speak, but the wind doesn’t speak either—and yet we can hear it blowing!

One more thing: God does not reward or punish. When we do harm, it comes back, like a boomerang. And when we do good, that comes back too… like another boomerang. Not the same one, but just like it!

God doesn’t speak with words like we do. Sometimes we think we hear something, like in a dream or in our head… but it’s not really a voice speaking.

God never gets angry. A person can get angry, but God is not a person. You can say anything about God—it won’t get offended. It’s like an elephant: would it get upset if ants called it “big clumsy thing”? It wouldn’t even hear them.

But be careful—it’s better not to say bad things about God. Not because of God… but because some people really don’t like it, and they can get very angry.

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