Why does God let bad things happen? It’s difficult to find joy when everything around us seems so grim. How can we find a positive note in the midst of despair? When the unthinkable happens, we meekly ask: Why?
When we have unfathomable tragedy, it is very easy to call the universe unfair. After all, no child should ever have their life cut short. No parent should ever have to bear responsibility for burying their own child.
How does one recover from something so appalling? And if we’re trying to live compassionately, how can we forgive those who bring tragedy into unsuspecting lives?
The Survival Impulse
Often in times of despair, we move into survival mode. We want to kill the source of the tragedy. We want to end the suffering, and feel that removing the original threat will help ease the pain.
But it doesn’t.
Forgiveness is a tough pill to swallow. We have lost a loved one at the hands of another. How can we forgive their assailant?
Yet it is only in forgiveness that we can truly begin the healing process. Should we grieve? Absolutely. But not indefinitely.
An Eternal Context
I’ve come to understand tragedy in a rather unique way. It’s allowed me to look at things in a more universal or eternal context.
It’s hard to fathom if you’re only looking at this one physical lifetime. But as an eternal being, one that is constantly trying to better the world in birth and in death, it has given me a way to show even those who might persecute me forgiveness and compassion.
We only feel and pick up on sorrow when we are vibrationally tuned to it. In one context, any tragic day is sad. But each soul that passes has a glorious welcoming party as they reemerge with source, their creator. There was no pain.
Many believe that brave souls who leave early knew they were going to be taken. It’s why they agreed to come to earth: to raise the consciousness of the planet through their example.
This is an eternal cycle. There is no death, only a recalibration of spirit.
The Purpose of Sacrifice
What brave souls do through sacrifice is make an example of themselves in a particular space and time, so that the world tunes in. When tragedy strikes, the entire world joins hands in a mass blanket of compassion.
That compassion goes into what you might call the Christ Consciousness Grid and it remembers. It doesn’t remember the sorrow, the pain, or the hurt. It remembers that for a day, the world was compassionate like they rarely have been before.
On the surface, yes, this appears to be tragedy. And in every physical sense of the word, it absolutely is. On a higher level, a more eternal level, though, these souls are heroes.
They have done what only sacrifice can offer: true compassion. We’re moving into an age when this compassion will be the default instead of the byproduct. But it takes brave souls to solidify a planetary feeling of compassion.
Moving Past Anger
It’s hard to move past feelings of anger when innocent people have died. But anger is just a reflection of the circumstance that allowed such horror to happen in the first place: a world out of sync with love.
Compassion and love is not just something we’re supposed to give when we’re happy. If we are to see a shift in planetary consciousness, if we are to plant the seeds of world peace, then we must learn to live compassion in the midst of tragedy.
If we cannot learn to love our enemies, then we will always be doomed to tragedy.
My thoughts and prayers go out to anyone who has lost someone before their time.
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