This Experience is What You Believe It is.

As I finish the last episode of the final season of Getting On,  I am intrigued by the last few words said by one doctor  as she and nurse Dawn are gurneyed into the operating room for a kidney transplant surgery.  She states, "In this world, there is no justice but there is mercy because that's what we can give to each other".  War criminals peacefully die in their beds while innocents violently and tragically die in the  millions.  Does karma really exist or is everything just happening with no rhyme or reason because God delights in ALL experiences and there is no good or bad in His mind.  In the words of Venus Andrecht, "God is always happy.  God is always the question and God is always the answer." I can hold all people in love with no judgment if God is everything and everyone. There goes God experiencing itself as a homeless drug addict; there goes God experiencing itself as a prostitute; God experiencing itself as a cognitively delayed nonverbal child; God experiencing itself as a humanitarian; God experiencing itself as a saintly nun; God experiencing itself as a racist bigot, God experiencing itself as an enlightened teacher here to save humanity and it is all for His glory.....

If this be the case, the dilemma I have is is such a God worth loving and worshipping?

There are so many injustices that can happen in one's life.   One's child can be born with a severe disability, get cancer, get hit by a car and be deemed permanently disabled in the prime of life, go into financial crisis and on and on.  Unlike the laws of karma, these tragedies don't just happen to bad people who deserve punishment; no, very often they happen to anybody.  Where is God's justice?  Where is man's justice when we see criminals in the upper eschelons of society run free after creating financial crisis or allowing for the contamination of food and water for fiscal bugeting (Fint's lead in the water supply comes to mind here).

A child born with a disability does not have to be a tragedy for the family if they are shown compassionate mercy by the community. A family living in financial crisis does not have to suffer if  people decide to carry each other and really become each other's "keeper". And, if one can 't help another, at least don't make it more difficult. This is the wisdom of the spiritual realms but as we witness so much fear and hatred, the beings in the spiritual realms must see humanity as primitive beings even as we laud ourselves to be evolved.

To live is Christ and encountering hardships is  perhaps one reason why we have all incarnated into the world. But, interpretations of our experiences can make all the difference in how we manage our lives.  A mother of a child with a cognitive disability who smears feces around the house, stays awake at night and has violent meltdowns in public bemoans the unfairness and curses her tragic fate in life.  Another parent of a similar child only praises what a gift she has been given for she is able to truly experience her ability to love unconditionally and sees her child as a teacher to work on her spiritual virtues of patience, acceptance and tolerance.  The experience we go through is what we believe it is. Who is to argue otherwise? So, let's believe it a good one! I hope I can always return to see the beauty in my situation even when occasionally I lapse into moments of self pity.

"We are the authors of our lives. We write our own daring endings.  We craft love from heartbreak, compassion from shame, grace from disappointment, courage from failure. Showing up is our power. Story is our way home; truth is our song; we are the brave and brokenhearted, we are rising strong."  

Life Manifesto by Brene Brown