In our short life span averaging between 50 to 80 years, we suffer. A frustration here, a bruise there. Some have more physical suffering than others: torture, cancer, and those caused by accidents. Psychological suffering also abound, such as depression, anger, stress, and loneliness, to name a few. There is a tendency, human though it is, to blame others for one’s suffering. More often than not, God is blamed for the suffering in this world.

However, it is fairly obvious that suffering in this world is a constant. Death and loss is inevitable. It is denial to live as one is immortal, impervious, and proud. It would be fantastical to witness all the suffering in the world to disappear.

It is logical to assume that the Maker would intimately now the situation of the Made. It is part of God to EMPATHIZE with His Children, since we are capable of empathy, being made in His likeness. So it is logical that God partake with the suffering of Man. Thus, God came down as Jesus Christ as Man. In Jesus’ 33 years of life on this earth, he not only felt the finiteness of the human body, but suffered one of the most, if not the most, pain and suffering ever inflicted by man on fellow man. By this, we are saved, by the ultimate expression of Love of God for His Greatest Creation.

God and Man are now one by suffering.

So if you’re losing faith because of suffering, think again, for God had more faith in man by being scourged by Roman soldiers and condemned to Crucifixion by the Pre-Modern Jews. By feeling our own suffering He had known us more intimately than any man, and is loving us more for our endurance of it. He is waiting for us on the other side.

“What goes around, goes around” is a common expression, which connotes the bad things a person does would come back to haunt that one. The eastern belief in Karma resonates this idea. Those subscribing to this tend to conclude that when a person suffers a misfortune, he or she had done something bad in the past. A more psychological explanation is a bad person is predisposed to fail because of the naturally immoderate aspects of that one’s personality.

This does not account for the random bouts of tragedy and suffering received by those that are apparently good. Phenomenologically, one can make an observation that misfortunes still happen even one is living a righteous life. However, karma subscribers would judge that still, that person still had done evil in the past. It would be oversimplification to just assume a past evil deed causing a personal suffering in the far future.

Man is predisposed to be imperfect, thus prone to mistake and wrongdoing. Could it be that all are still going to receive bad karma?

The belief in Karma suffers the fallacy of false causation. As suffering and human error are constants, though not totally unavoidable, the attribution of accidental evil to past deeds is a shallowly thought pattern making on events.

The vengeful nature in man allows for the conceptualization of poetic justice.

Repeat after me: This is the Day the Lord has made.........

God has kept me here for a reason.
I survived because He has a plan for me.
All my bad relationships, the consequences, the
hard times, the sad times, the death of my loved ones, the back
stabbing from my friends, the negative thoughts, or the lack of
support; I made it because I am blessed!
I release and let go of all past hurts, misunderstandings and grudges
because I am abundantly blessed! I recognize them as the illusions
they are, and sent from the enemy to kill my spirit, steal my joy, and
destroy my faith; For God is all there is. All else is a lie! Now give
yourself a hug, wipe your tears away and walk in victory!!!!!!!! I
love you, but more appropriately God loves you BEST! Be blessed and know
that you are at one with THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD! And may the
Lord keep watch between you and me when we are aw ay from each other.
Genesis 31:49. Amen!

Now since you are a true child of God, you know that with every
blessing, a blessing is required! So be a blessing to another, by
passing this on.

IF YOU DO IT RIGHT NOW, GOD WILL BLESS IT RIGHT NOW!!
Be Blessed "The Will of GOD will never take you where the GRACE of GOD
will not protect you.

I HAVE THREE POINTS FOR TODAY:

1. I have read about the Five Proofs of St. Thomas Aquinas and the best argument he had about God is the argument of Necessary Existence.

All things (Almost all) that exist have a beginning and end. That the beginning of all things is also caused by another thing, but this thing has a beginning and an end.

Now, that means BEFORE the beginning of THAT SOMETHING there was NOTHING.

But SOMETHING cannot be began by NOTHING, much less come from NOTHING. HENCE, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT HAS ALWAYS EXISTED, WITH NO BEGINNING AND NO ENDING, so that THAT ONE caused something to begin and WHICH also cause other things.

THAT ONE THAT HAS EXISTED BEFORE finite things is GOD.

2. ATHEISTS WILL SAY "WHY IS THERE A NEED TO PROVE THAT GOD EXISTS?"

MY ANSWER IS: YOU HAVE NOT SEEN A WORLD WITHOUT A GOD, WHILE YOU DECLARE A WORLD WITH GOD TO BE WITHOUT GOD, SO YOUR ARGUMENT HAS LESS WEIGHT WITHOUT THE WORLD TO BACK YOU UP. A WORLD WITH A GOD IS BETTER THAN ONE WITHOUT. GOD IS THE HIGHEST REPRESENTATION OF GOOD FOR ALL THE MAJOR RELIGIONS. BETTER TO HAVE AN IDEAL TO MODEL TO THAN TO MODEL FELLOW HUMANS WHO ARE SO FALLIBLE.

3. RELIGION CANNOT BE PROVED BY EMPIRICAL MEANS. I ADMIT TO THAT. BECAUSE ANYTHING BEYOND THE SCOPE OF THE HUMAN MIND AND BODY CANNOT BE MEASURED. IF YOU CANNOT PROVE TO ME GOD'S NOT THERE, THEN YOU CANNOT CONVINCE ME TO STOP BELIEVING IN MY CREATOR.

Anything beyond human measurement CANNOT be proved OR DISPROVED!

Mother of my life
Tears of stay from my wife
My neglect a cruel knife
To her and all give strife.

You know more of life than me
And love you yearn for patiently
This comes to you naturally
Because your heart feels more than me.

Outside of us was, is, and will be wrenching chaos
Where all sanity is lost
So you invite me to love at all costs
Yet my lust gave you no pause.

You know too well our souls must fuse
And uniting of hearts love is used
Being one we withstand the chaos that ensues
This loving soul to eternity will not lose.

So now I wipe your tears again
Your side I will never leave again
And if now you don’t find me again
In time I will find you again.

We will be one again.