I was writing an email to a friend when I was prompted by an inner voice to include this text:
I think our lives -- the path our spirits travel, with obstacles and rewards -- were put in place by God so that we might learn lessons. Sometimes we learn by succeeding, and sometimes we learn by failing, but it is the experience that teaches us. Never take a measuring stick to your life, because you don't know what God is measuring. Just know that you will have to go through the experience again and again until you learn its lesson, and the lesson involves love. Love for your fellow humans and love for yourself, because you are a creation of the Creator and therefore you have the Divine inside you. Everyone does, even though not all of us may be able to see it in our everyday lives.
My friend asked me to expand on this subject, so I decided to make it a blog post.
If there is a God, and if God is good, then why does evil exist and why is there suffering in the world?
Imagine a world where there was no suffering and everyone was happy all the time, only because that is the way God commanded it to be. If you were always satisfied and if everything went your way, how would you feel about that? You'd probably get tired of it faster than you think. Life would become boring. And there would be no escape.
An episode of The Twilight Zone titled "A Nice Place to Visit" was based upon the premise that a place where a person can have everything they want would quickly become a nightmare. There is a Wikipedia entry on this subject. You can read it here.
1 comment:
Greetings
Your post is most interesting --
I actually have sat and thought about what our world would be like if there was no hate and meanness. I think Norman Rockwell photos imply this world exists. This brings back memories of a movie by Chevy Chase -- I think he and his family moved across the country and had so much trouble they decided to sell their home. But in order too --they had to pretend there was nothing but love in the area -- and decided to stay --
I found it intriguing and pleasant to expect good and not evil every day.
It's a deep subject for me -- but very interesting.
Thanks for a good and deep read.
Best, LL
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