Suffering for enlightenment

I totally get your pain and hardships. It is not easy to endure, but hopefully the following could bring you some peace and calm you well deserve:

We willingly and purposely "dumb down" ourselves to come into this world that is a school for us to have an adventure of learning to grow up from spiritual immaturity to greater wisdom and benevolent maturity. And through that long learning process that spans many human lifetimes here, we begin to uncover who we truly are and why we are here. Some call this a test of consciousness, that is, blessed with free will to freely choose, what will we choose and how will we behave.

What we had done in past lifetimes are carried over to this lifetime. This concept is known by different names such as karma, causality, law of attraction, reap what you sowed, and what goes around comes around. And contrary to what some believe, God/Source does not judge and punish, but will instead always lovingly nurture and patiently guide us back onto the path of love when we veered off it through free will.

When we fail to see or heed the divine nudges, the subsequent nudges become less gentle to make it more obvious to us. Being quite stubborn creatures, we prefer to dwell in our old comfortable ways even when knowing those ways are not the best for us. And when we lack the incentive to change and the nudges become strong, some then mistakenly believe it is punishment from a vengeful God or that we are trapped souls here to suffer as food source for some evil alien entities.

Everything happens with purpose behind it. Nothing is ever random, coincidental, lucky, or unlucky. Uncover the lessons embedded in our adversities, learn from the lessons, and improve ourselves. All part of growing up.

As we move further along the spiritual path to love, what we earlier saw as suffering and adversities will now be seen as grateful and blessed lesson opportunities to gain more wisdom and benevolent maturity. With this understanding and more able to see the bigger picture, we then would have a more peaceful heart and mind, instead of dwelling in anger and hatred and feeling like we are lowly hopeless and helpless victims of this world constantly complaining and blaming.

We can't move forward spiritually when we dwell in fear and victimhood. It is why the malevolent people in power wants to keep us in perpetual fear and feeling hopeless to deny our spiritual growth. It is exactly what masters do to their slaves for easier control and manipulation.

God does not want us to suffer. God wants to be found to give us personal comfort and guidance while we each learn to grow up.

And God's love is open without prejudice to anyone who seeks it with sincerity and pure intent. God's love is not exclusive to only members of a certain club, or only to people who follow a long list of "must do" things in order to receive God's love.

Why so much mention of love? Because love is the key to solving our problems. When we open our hearts to receive God's love and in turn we give love to others, it triggers a cascade of benevolent enhancements to our body and mind to fast track our spiritual growth.

Start by having gratitude and gradually take in the love of God. Then better things will follow to help us grow up to greater wisdom and benevolent maturity more able to understand why things are unfolding the way they are.

All the best!!!

Correct. Internally, I correlate the 2 together.

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Wonderful reply…I’m 46 also

Wisdom

What a wonderful reply

I would say it is simple.

In search of happiness we create theories of what will be the key. When we realize that theory isn't correct, finding a new path is painful.

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

― Rumi

God never makes a deal with Bob.

I think the key is to keep out as much thought and stick with heart…the heart knows what it wants…the mind like to rationalise theories created by itself.