How Can God Allow Suffering?

I heard one of the classic questions that people ask all the time when they are doubting in God or a Higher Power, etc. All of a sudden, I realized that I have a truth for myself that the preacher being asked did not know the answer to.

The leading character asked 'How can God allow this other person to suffer medically so much?'.

The answer is that human beings have freedom of choice in their lives. This is related to their biology.
God has granted us the use of these temporary biological vessels to live out our lives so that we may experience love and the entire rainbow of emotions that are largely driven by our love and our physical experience. These temporary biological vessels have their own set of rules for their operation.

Sometimes the rules say that we must endure a wide range of diseases and malformations. Sometimes the rules say that we must enjoy excellent health.

We can influence the outcomes for our biologies to a certain extent. Sometimes we cannot. In the end, it's our Love and our Faith in that Love that is all powerful.

Be very aware of the stories you tell. Our lives become the stories we tell.

Does Your Momma Know You Talk Like That?

Let's hope President elect Trump never has to meet my mother.

They would have to sit down together over a cup of coffee and have 'a talk' about what he believes is ok when talking about and how to treat women.

He would behave far more nicely after having a chat with her.

Most of our programming comes in our early years, before we get to grade school. The programming comes from our parents and families.

Clearly, Trump was raised the son of a womanizer and the son of an oppressed woman.

Now, ask yourself. How did your parents raise you?

Are you the best human being you can be?

Did you know that you can change your programming?

It's possible and it starts by being aware of your thoughts.

We have thoughts that immediately come up in our brains based on our early childhood programming. Not all of those thoughts serve ourselves and others.

Being aware of our thoughts is the first step in a process that includes considering how our automatic reactions to those thoughts may affect ourselves and others.

Practice being aware of the thoughts that are flowing through your mind.

Once you are aware of them, you can choose to accept those thoughts or not.

Once you are aware of being aware, you have reached an excellent point in your life.

Ready?

Would you like to know the truth? The truth is subject to interpretation. It's situational at best. Family traditions play a large role in developing your truths. If your parents firmly believed in peace, love and happiness, then you likely do too. Truth depends on who is telling it and whose ideas sound the best to you. Do the truths appeal to your gut or to your heart? Both are important, you know. As long as you are consciously aware of what you are feeling and you know that what you are hearing is what you want to accept into your heart as a part of your reality, then that's just fine. But don't come complaining when The Great Swamp Drainer merely adds more alligators to the swamp.

Moving Through Reality

A while back I cooked as a volunteer for a benefit BBQ to benefit our community preschool and children’s center. The entire time I was engaged in that activity, I was completely aware of being a spiritual being acting out my life in the playground that God has created for us called time and space.

I was really excited to comprehend that this reality has been created just for us so that we can do things like have cooking fires and food and social interaction. And then my attention was drawn to the leaves on the ground. I understood their structures and the reason for the structures to be there. I started contemplating that the vast complexity that has arisen from the original plan has always been a part of the plan, it simply hasn't been expressed at this level of organization . . . until now. (The ineffable now. The now that is forever unfolding before us.)

Reality has a self-similar (some say fractal) nature. This means that designs and systems that we see expressed in our day to day life and in nature have corollaries on the very large and the very small scales. Because we are incarnate at the organizational level that we are, we see reality as it best fits our current perceptions. (Otherwise, we go mad. As in insane.)
How do entities who are incarnate at other levels of organization experience reality? What is important to their perceptions?

Just because we have our biological sensory organs that are highly adapted to dwelling in our current physical reality, doesn't mean that entities that are organized at other levels lack their own sense organs. Even though they may not be apparent, they are probably far different than our own because the ‘stage of life’ upon which they play out their lives is drastically different than our own. These other entities must be tuned into another set of stimuli that are important to them and very foreign to humans. Imagine what kind of energies must be flying around the universe that carry important information between stars and planets . . . that we have no way of detecting. What kinds of energies are carrying information to electrons, protons and neutrons that we have no way of detecting?

About the best that human animals can do is observe and measure in the space time continuum in which we dwell by using our physical senses and instruments that we have developed (imagined) into existence. There must be a huge array of information being transferred all around us by energies which we can only imagine - and many that are well beyond our wildest imaginings. We must be missing out on an awful lot!

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I first heard of Doctor Bruce Lipton back in 2009 or so while I was looking for brainwave entrainment recordings. He has some outstanding tracks that will lock your brain right into the eternal groove!

But, I also discovered recently that he has some books he has written and I’ve recently read two of them. I’ve given away three copies of each of these books to people that I love because I feel that the people and the books are just that important.

One of the two (and the one you should read first) is The Biology of Belief. Just buy one of the used copies. $3.64 for the most amazing story you’re going to read this year is a great value.

The second of the two is Spontaneous Evolution. It is a sort of follow up to the first book because it basically says ‘Now that we have this knowledge, what should we do with it?’. Kind of a ‘where do we go from here?’ type of story.

I have to admit that it took me a while to read these books. I would read a paragraph and then I would have to think about what I had just read for a while before I was able to proceed. But in the end, the process was very exciting and well worth the effort. I highly recommend them.

Bruce Lipton has shared hours and hours of free videos on YouTube. Unlike many other forward thinkers, Dr. Lipton sincerely wants to advance the evolution of human beings and Mother Earth.

I will be forever grateful for his sound recordings, his books and his videos.

Purpose

What keeps you up late at night when you should be sleeping? What gets you excited to get up in the morning before the alarm clock sounds?

I spent 60 years, first trying to figure out what it is that I'm 'supposed to be doing', then once I figured that out, being afraid to risk everything I had gained in order to do what I finally discovered was my purpose.

By failing to follow my purpose and instead seeking peripheral gratification, I wound up hurting others. For that, I sincerely apologize.

In the end, like most things in the human realm, I created a lot of complexity where there should have been none. I generated a lot of angst and subsequent drama that never should have been there.

In the end, the answer is amazingly simple and yet very difficult to do.

Be your own true honest self.

You can tell when things are not right. You can hear the still, small voice in your heart telling you when what you are doing is wrong. But I ignored it. I was wandering around in a hall of mirrors chasing my own shadow. All because I wanted to be happy.

I met some awesome, no, incredibly amazing people along the way. And I hope to meet many more.

With the recent election of the President elect and his Grand Falloon*, I am finally ready to give up all that I have gained, if need be, to promote Love, Happiness, Peace on Earth and to contribute to the spiritual growth and evolution of Mother Earth.

It's simple. But it's not easy.

Be yourself.

The world has been waiting for you.

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* "Grand Falloon: A large, all-encompassing lie, often believed by large groups of people including organizations, cults, and even entire nations."
From:
http://candleforlove.com/forums/topic/1035-wampeters-foma-and-grand-falloons/

Christmas

Sometimes, when I look back over my life, I can’t believe where I’ve wound up today.
I have so much!

When I was a kid, my parents would put no presents under the tree before Christmas - none at all.

Then, on Christmas morning, when the few meager presents magically appeared, we knew that Santa had come and left us gifts! And we were very happy and excited!

Our parents would give us the best Christmas gifts they could. Just like every other family, of course.

I remember on several occasions receiving a pear wrapped in aluminum foil. Black walnuts (gathered from the roadside by my parents) wrapped in a box. My dad would carve wooden toys out of tree branches. And all of the gifts would be wrapped with comic pages that had been secretly collected from the 52 previous Sunday issues of the newspaper.

Somehow, someway, I knew that since Santa would arrive each year that it meant that my parents loved me. I know now that what I was feeling was the warmth of their love. It was their hearts connecting to our hearts that let us know that it was them providing the gifts. But it was fun to play along anyway and all of us together believed in Santa Claus.

My dad, to his last day on Earth insisted that Santa Claus is real.
But we knew better. In our objective reasoning we knew it was mom and dad.

And yet, in fact, Santa Claus does exist. Santa exists in the hearts of all who care enough about their loved ones and each other to do whatever it takes to show them how much they love them. Even if that Love is shown through the imagined persona of Santa Claus.

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This year we are preparing to give some amazing gifts to our children. They are amazing because some of them can help enable the next natural evolutionary step of humans come to pass.

Virtual Reality (VR) goggles for phones can immerse us into the digital world like never before.

They will help us immerse ourselves into alternate realities, just like where we find ourselves now.

We are so immersed into this physical, biological world that we cannot even remember that we are all here to  play a massive simulation game. We cannot remember that we each have chosen to project our consciousnesses here into this physical realm. The Game of Life. VR goggles will help begin the process of doing the same for the next level of consciousness projection.

Some of us awaken to the knowledge that we are projecting our consciousnesses into this world. Most do not.

It’s all part of the game. The game of who can Love and be Loved the most.

Today, Nancy, Sara and Owen were discussing ‘If they were a superhero, which superpower would they want to have?’.  Some chose the ability to fly. Some shooting fire.

I thought to myself ‘If I were a superhero, I would want the ability to strike Love into the hearts of my enemies’.

Love conquers all, after all.

Or, as my dad was fond of saying, “Love is the most powerful force in the world!”

Damned straight, dad. Damned straight.

Love and Compassion

Love is the greatest force in the Universe.
Compassion is the greatest virtue.

There is a reason that I do not fear contact with civilizations beyond our Earth.

For any civilization to have survived long enough to develop sufficiently so that they can go visiting other planets and meet other beings would first have to resolve most of their problems. In order to solve their problems, they would have to hold Love and Compassion in the highest regard. They would have to develop their personal and societal capacities for Love and Compassion to a very high level.

Right now we can look around us at our sisters and brothers here on Earth. We see people rushing from place to place to place with barely a thought towards Love and Compassion.

We observe that these people who are too busy fail to think for themselves, choosing instead to have their thinking done for them.
When a person's thinking is fundamentally based on a consumer entertainment product (radio and television), the substance of the thoughts that the person holds tends to be very narrow and rigid. Narrow and rigid thought is polarized thought. Right or wrong. White or black. Yes or no.

Polarized or 'binary' thinking leads to a judgmental nature because any topic must fit into one or the other category. No gray areas allowed! It is very difficult to have great compassion while being judgmental.
People get upset that the taxes they pay on their income go to help families that, for whatever reason, are not capable of helping themselves. And yet they ignore the fact that vast majority of the taxes they pay go to fund weaponry to kill human beings. Why are they not upset about that?
It's because in supporting both cases, a lack of compassion is required.

To rise above our challenges, to move humanity forward to the point where we as a species are collectively ready to meet beings from outside our own little spaceship Earth, we need to learn to Love unconditionally and to help each other unconditionally.

Human beings need to begin believing in a state of plenty and prosperity. In order to do that, we will need to use the force of Love and the virtue of compassion.