Religion generally leads us to believe that God is the God of all that's good. But that raises some serious questions about all the things we see happening around us. How can a God that's all good allow all these traumatic things to continue? 

The answer to that seems to be the Devil. Religion invented a bad guy who goes around spreading the bad stuff. I guess they are in competition with each other. I'm not sure who wins or how it works, but when we look around us right now it sure seems like the Devil may have the lead.

Does any of that make sense? Nope. Not a bit. God is supposed to be omnipotent and all powerful. How does it lose to the Devil? Is this like the Avengers movie? Good versus evil and eventually the good guys win? I hate to break it to you, but life is not a Hollywood movie. It is not good versus evil. That's just not how this plays out.

To make it make sense we have to have one omnipotent being. Whether you call it God or something else is entirely up to you. Names are somewhat irrelevent. The point is, it's the same being. That being is in control of everything. That being, what I'm choosing to call God, is the God of all that is, not the God of all that's good.

That raises another question. Why would a God who is supposed to be unconditionally loving allow bad things to happen? Enter existentialism. Experience is neutral. It has no inherent meaning or value of its own. Judgment is a human thing. God is an existentialist. God doesn't have human judgment, which is what allows God to be unconditionally loving. The only value in the experience is the experience itself. The point of the experience is to have the experience. The idea that we judge it as good or bad is not the point. Our judgment of it doesn't matter. 

As souls we decide voluntarily to come into our human forms and live this Earthly life. The point of life is to have experiences, not just good experiences, all experiences. We're here to explore the spectrum and emotion of experience. We're here to understand those things better. That's what we agreed to as souls. 

As humans, we get tied up in our judgment of it. We get tied up in how it's supposed to be or what it should look like or be like. We've lost the ability to consider that it's not supposed to be any kind of a way. It's supposed to be the way it is and our job is to learn from that and understand it. But we're so busy judging it and being hurt by it that we can't be bothered to actually create a helpful meaning from the experience. Instead we create lenses of blame, shame, guilt, and victimization, make up wild stories, and hurt ourselves even further.

Religion pitted good versus evil as a means of control. It forces people to beg God to be nice to them. It forces people to behave a certain way so that God will be nice to them. If we see bad experiences as punishment, that helps to keep people in line. There is a lot of fear and control in how religion was originally presented.

I'm not suggesting that the priest at the local church is trying to use fear to gain control. What I am suggesting is that he is probably as afraid as the rest of his congregation, which is why he believes he has to spout this stuff. He believes his work is to spread the fear and he does so, probably very well. 

If you find a priest that's more down to Earth and you ask them question that religion can't answer, they tend to be fairly honest that they don't know. The only explanation they have is that God knows what they are doing. It's not up to us to understand. Honestly, that's fair enough. Human perception is very limited and so there are going to be many things that don't make a whole lot of sense. I just don't think that the spectrum of experience needs to be one of them.  Humans just need to stop believing so strongly in their own judgment and then stop projecting that onto God.

What if our judgment of it is the problem? What if the problem isn't the experience at all? What if the only problem is just in how we choose see it? How does that change things? What if you just assume that your judgement of that bad experience you had is wrong? 

Again, I'm not suggesting that we try to make bad experiences good. What I am suggesting is that there is a helpful meaning to be found in even the most horrible of experiences. Our job is to find the helpful meaning. Yes, the helpful meaning is the reason for the experience. You may not agree with that and that's okay. If the experience is happening, then there is a helpful meaning to be found and that is the justification for the experience.  Humans are meant to explore those helpful meanings further. How can I take that helpful meaning and use it in my life?

God is ultimately responsible for the balance. Experience and human emotions are on parallel spectrums. Love and hate, good and evil, right and wrong, those are spectrums or ranges of experience and emotions. They are also an old-school scale with the plates on either side. God is responsible for keeping that scale in balance. Humans like to call this idea Karma. What I want everybody to realize is that the balance equals out over eternity not individual lifetimes or in one evening. 

Our human lives are blips on the radar of time. Time has no beginning and it has no end. There was a lot that came before you and I were human forms and there will be even more after we are gone. Our souls play in that eternal space. The balance of experience for that soul plays out over the souls' entire experience, not just one human lifetime.

Time is a human construct. The soul doesn't have the experience of time because everything is concurrent. Life, although it appears linear to our human forms, is not. Things happen simultaneously. The truth is we're actually all over the place, but our human mind offers us a limited perception that gives us the feeling of a linear space time reality.

When we understand that time is not as we perceive it, it offers us another unique way of looking at the balance of love and hate. For every "good" thing we see happening, there is another equal and opposite experience happening somewhere else concurrently. It may be in this current space time reality or it may be in another. But either way, the balance is being maintained by God who can see all those concurrent realities simultaneously. 

The point is that there is much happening outside of our physical awareness. When we simply use our limited awareness to judge experiences we're missing the point. We're missing out on the opportunity to explore why we're here, what this is all about, and how we can use it to make our lives better.

I invite you to join me in expanding how you see the world, how you see experience, and what the meaning is that you make from those experiences. I believe there is a higher power managing the balance of the chaos we see around us. Do you believe that? Do you believe something else? Share with me in the comments what you think. I'd love to hear from you.

Love to all.

Della