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In a message dated 9/7/2004 11:28:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

michael_bindel writes:

 

Dear ZenBob

 

is there a contradiction between what i just wrote and feel to be "ok" and

that what you wrote below???

 

 

AWAITING YOUR ESTEEMED ANSWER

 

 

in GD i am

 

michael

 

 

 

Michael:

 

The mind, the world, the universe are big places and there is a lot of room

for apparent contradiction which still can exist in a timeless harmony.

Choices are real, we make them and they alter our lives. Divine love and

spiritual guidance is also real...and we cannot ever fully understand or see

all of

the complex layers, the interactions wherein we are part of a greaater whole,

a larger view of interactions. Someone may have a copy of this account

whereby someone saves someone's son, and then in gratitude that father provides

money for the poor man's son to go to medical school...who becomes a doctor

and then saves the life of the benefactor or his family (I am not certain of

the relationship here) and other related stories where there may be many

generations removed before the entwined and seemingly random events combine to

alter history and many lives. We do not see these mechanisms usually, and

sadly

most are never documented for this reason.

 

We must always make our choices, and do so with the faith that we do them to

the best of our ability...that is the responsibility of a thinking spiritual

being...and we should also know, fully and completely that when some very

very important, crushingly difficult choices or problems confront us, that then

is the perfect moment to just relax and allow the Universe to guide us, move

us, protect us...and that if the results do not seem to our liking...(and

living in a state of grace has nothing to do with the universe doing things for

our liking or satisfaction!) we must keep our spiritual center and know that

we serve many purposes, and the universe may delight us, but it is not there

simply for our own personal delight....and eventually all that live will

suffer, have loss, feel tragedy and eventually move on to other states of

existence. When a person cannot move past feeling loss or hurt, personal

tragedy

in their life, and then believes that life is a dark and terrible thing, that

is a terrible afront to Nature itself. We are bound by the terms, the

contract of life and this contract warns us from the very first moments that

life

is painful, a struggle, most living creatures have but brief existences, and

that there are no guarantees...but the mature and spiritually centered

person, though deeply feeling their loss, knows that they must move on in life

and

seek to contribute to the good of others, no matter what...because that is

the right thing to do and because those we have loved would want to see us

doing well in the world and helping others.

 

I hope that this has not been too long a reply. I hope that it resolves any

apparent conflict.

 

In this universe, always remember that very striking contrasts can exist and

often must exist in order for our universe to exist as it does. Things can

be seemingly contradictory without being absolutely mutually excluding.

 

That's a lesson in tolerance, too.

 

Love,

 

Zenbob