![]() We (my wife and I, though I’m now going to stop speaking for her) try first to be honest with our children, but to follow that good principle here seemed self-indulgent. We would have said that he was invented by human beings, because they were rather puzzled by life and death and some other problems in between.īut that wouldn’t do. Then we would have sat down and told her that God couldn’t be sent her letter or answer the question because, in our view, he didn’t exist. It read “To God how did you get invented? From Lulu xo ” When she asked us to send it (by setting light to it and putting it up the chimney, as we do with letters to Father Christmas) several courses of action offered themselves.Įasiest of all, for us, would have been to fold the piece of paper and file it in the memory box - Lulu is 6 and hasn’t written more than a dozen letters in her life. M y daughter came home from primary school a few weeks ago and sat down to write a letter to God. ![]() ![]() When his six-year-old daughter, Lulu wrote a letter to God, Alex Renton did his best to get her an answer - with a little help from the Archbishop of Canterbury. ![]()
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