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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It becomes a little easier to understand if you accept that you agreed to this life before you incarnated.  You knew the things that you needed to work on.  You knew the lives you were meant to touch.  You knew the healing that you needed to do.  Of course, you always have free will.  And you probably have no memory of your soul contract.  But, you did choose this.

I had cancer.  It sucked.  But, it changed me. It made me a more compassionate person.  It made me appreciate every moment more.  When my best friend died, I had another shift.  I was really angry at God/Goddess, Source, Spirit, …whatever name you choose.  As I began to process her death, I began to accept that dying isn’t the worst thing that can happen.  Her death led me to Hospice Chaplaincy.  I’m a better minister because I’ve experienced loss and suffering.

We are only on this earth planet for a minuscule amount of time during each lifetime. [b]Our purpose is to learn to be more loving, more compassionate, more like the Source from which we come. [/b]

Just my thoughts.  [/quote]

Ignoring the evangelical vs atheist debate in the thread for a moment, I think this is beautiful PP. I think of God as universal, source, creation. I see God in dew drops on leaves and in sunsets and in the way the wind brushes my cheeks. God, for me, isn’t a person with marionette strings, causing a war in one country while across the ocean free people spend hundreds at Target and then go home to warm cozy beds. That’s the unfair circumstances of where we live and were born, and the choices of people around us.  God is the love from which everything was created. We were created to love, but often fail at doing so. That’s not God’s fault. We have free will.

[b]You don’t have to believe in God, and it very isn’t a requirement to lead a life of meaning or love. But I find life so much richer because I do[/b]. [/quote]

Just as many find life more fulfilling because they do not believe in God.  For some, it was very oppressive, believing that a God was controlling their life and so often finding it wanting. They feel great relief having shed that belief.

For others, what they had been taught about God just didn't make any sense and they were relieved to learn that many others felt the same way[/quote]

Then I am happy for those people. I wasn’t putting value on either side of the fence. My wish for everyone is they find that greater meaning. That could be god, love, community, learning. [/quote]

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