George Saunders said his writing shifted when he stopped trying to “teach the world something” and instead “refused to be boring.” I don't think George Saunders is God, but I do think some people, maybe a lot of people think God is dead set on teaching the world something when in

fact God is more interested in not being boring, or rather trying his divine best to crack open the hard nuts we are so we can see and hear and taste and touch and smell the wide wonderful world all around us that is anything but boring if we've just the sense(s) to realize it.

Now I'm not opposed to learning things, but I do bristle at the thought that at the end of the day God says, "Okay, John, what did you learn today?" No, I believe God says, "What'd you see today, John? What'd you taste? Tell me what you felt, John" and so on and then some. I just

don't believe we're students who must or need to be taught a lesson, that we have to be sure we "get it." We're witnesses, or maybe better yet we're children, and the voice of Love is constantly saying, "Look," or in his KJV voice—"Behold."