Oct 11
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Why Does God Allow Suffering?
I’ve been asked several variations of the same question recently so I would like to give my view on “Why does God allow suffering?” and…
“You say when you had your nde, that God was pure love. Why has he/she created this often times really crappy world with cancer, rape etc? How is pure Love capable of creating a non loving person and planet?”
I don’t think God is the one who created what seems like this really crappy world!
And here’s more of my opinion that answers “Why does God allow suffering?”
I just simply think that is the wrong question to ask. My question is, “Why do so many people continue doing things that cause suffering?”
We were given free will and allowed the freedom to do as we please rather than being told what we had to do. I think we were given a chance to be expressions of God’s Love but look what a mess we’ve made of things.
OK so here’s my rant but not without offering a solution:
We can no longer safely eat fish out of the ocean because it is so polluted with chemicals dumped there by industries that care more about making money than taking care of our planet. I don’t see that as God’s plan or creation.
Kids can no longer safely stand on the street corner and wait for the school bus because chances are pretty good that a predator might come along and do them harm. Predators have always been around but communities stuck together and helped each other out and provided support and protection.
I smiled at a girl riding her bike with her dad the other day and she glared back at me with hatred and defensiveness in her eyes. It seems she had been warned about smiling strangers and taught to see them as the enemy. What a dilemma it is for parents to keep their kids safe yet help them grow up to be well adjusted and happy adults. That’s challenging when you have to stress what they need to fear in order to survive these days.
Go into a public place like a grocery store and look at the people waiting in line. So many people are in their own little worlds and they rarely make eye contact or make the effort to say hello. It’s tough to find time between all the emails, texts, electronic games and cell phone calls now that we have cyber space to play in. We’ve lost our sense of community. Having that bond, it’s been discovered, is a great benefit to health and the sense of well-being.
We don’t eat healthy food grown in our local area by healthy people working outside in nature, moving their bodies and getting the exercise needed to stay healthy. Instead, food is being mass produced while most of us stay out of balance from no exercise, lots of unnatural lighting, being inside in unhealthy air in our environments, eating what seems like plastic food full of chemicals while watching TV shows that put mostly garbage in our minds.
People feel worse and worse physically and big pharma saves the day by creating more pills with more side effects that require more pills. If it requires any effort at all to be healthier, many people won’t do it. So people get grumpier and lazier and look for someone to sue to end their problems.
I don’t believe there is a God up there making decisions about what kind of havoc will fall or deciding what to do to cause these things to happen.
While all this spiritual independence is going on in our little world, I believe God is just being God-vibrating Love and Light. We were given free will and we have created a mess that goes against the natural and harmonious design of the universe.
We know now through new science that we are all connected and one at some level. We pull each other up or down and move through life affecting each other.
We always have a choice and had one in the beginning when things were going astray and we have a choice today. We each matter.
In my opinion, what it takes is getting back to tuning in to who and what we are-spiritual beings created out of Light and Love. I experienced that firsthand when I left my body and car in a ditch by the highway, as have many others who’ve experienced ndes.
Most of us understood things we don’t understand here on earth. We felt the oneness and the connection to the Light and received the understanding that the only thing that is important is Love.
So now we have some pretty amazing studies that show how important it is for health and well being to feel loved and cared for. We are finding that compassion enhances the brain and that meditation strengthens connections in the brain and improves brain structure and brain health.
It seems to me that we have all we need to create healthier bodies and a better world simply by loving ourselves and others and getting back to living the way we were created to live.
But how much real Love do we show to each other here on earth? How much do we go out of our way to contribute to others? That can be anything from picking up a piece of litter to smiling warmly at someone and letting them know they aren’t invisible, to just asking someone you know if there is some little thing you could do to help them in some way.
We have the power to make a difference in big and small ways and they all count.
We can also connect with our inner wisdom and feelings and let them guide the way. It might surprise you how often you find yourself at the right place at the right time.
Living that way is very powerful but if you’ve never paid much attention to that little voice inside or your “gut feelings,” then like anything that is new, it involves creating new habits and developing skills. You can get started by simply deciding to.
Mentally state to yourself and your Higher Power what your intention is or what you want and then determine to notice things going on around you more. See if you can become like a curious child and wonder how it will show up. Do your best to expect a response and be open to receiving one. It often comes in ways you least expect.
This may seem foreign to you but if you search out some of the latest discoveries about the brain, energy, intention, beliefs, emotions…you might begin to think like I do-that we are the ones shooting ourselves in the foot. God is just there being God, providing the Love and Light-the building blocks for whatever we choose to create through our thoughts, intentions and energy.
We’ve got the power to change things and it’s almost too simple. Research has shown that it takes a very, very small number of people focusing on a positive outcome with a vision that is powered by focused energy in order to make a difference.
But as long as so many people do nothing or expect change to come from out there someplace, the kind of change needed to create something different won’t happen.
There is great power in creating intentions and focusing energy and I have seen what we are capable of. That’s why I share just a few of many experiences in “7 True Stories.” My belief about who is responsible is pretty firm after all the research and experimentation with healing and manifesting I’ve done. So I stopped wondering, “Why does God allow suffering?”
Instead, I do my best to create intentions that impact where life is headed and I coach others on that process so we are making a difference. I believe we are the ones who messed things up and we are the ones who need to fix it. We certainly have the tools to do that and new discoveries that can help are being revealed all the time. We each just have to take steps to fix ourselves first and then help others.
Here’s what was instilled in me from my near death experience and life review:
I can’t control exactly what happens out there in the world but as long as I am doing something to improve myself and in turn the world, then I’m doing my part. And that’s what I want to see next time. I’m especially driven because I discovered that it is all recorded and who you are is painfully evident in your life review. I REALLY didn’t like the Teri Rose I saw in the last one!
