CHALLENGE #4 - If god is so good and powerful, then why all the evil and suffering and pain and misery?

This earth is your school room. You souls have moved into this physical body and into this schoolroom to learn. To learn what?

COMPASSION. NON-JUDGMENT. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

Grand terms to be sure, but what do they mean? What does it really mean to have compassion for another? What does it mean to be non-judgmental?

Think about the last hour; just review it in your minds for a moment. Was there any judgment? “That driver ahead of me is slow.

I don’t like that house. Why did somebody paint it that color? This road is too bumpy, doesn’t anybody in this town take care of the roads?”

Little bits. I’m not talking about hatred, just little bits of judgment. Some of you may say “But, Aaron, if we never judge anything as deficient, then there’s no force within us to try to change that which we see lacking.”

Barbara is training a puppy. He’s very deficient in many learning areas. His attention span is rather short.

He has learned to sit and stay remarkably well for a three month old puppy, but ten seconds is about it. Does Barbara hate that puppy or rage at him when he gets up from sitting? Or does she simply walk back to him and say “Sit.

Stay”? One does not need to feel hatred or even mild irritation to see what is wrong in the world and attempt to change it. In fact, one can create change far more readily and more skillfully, when there is no rage.

Here is where anger offers the most energy, when it is transformed to compassion and to recognition of your non-separation with this earth and all life upon it. It is never wrong to feel – but it is spiritually immature and unskillful to use your emotions as an excuse to injure another. So, what is the path to truly moving beyond anger?

In human form, can you ever reach a point where you don’t feel anger? You can only begin to move beyond anger by accepting your anger. You cannot transcend what you don’t accept.

When you find compassion for all the heavy emotions in yourself, THAT ACCEPTANCE is what leads you to compassion for another. Then you find that the same catalyst that led to rage or greed or jealousy simply leads you to an open hearted look at the situations that confront you, without judgment.” “All beings who commit themselves to LIVE WITH AWARENESS, WITH LOVE AND FORGIVENESS, WITH NON-HARM TO OTHERS, are on the path to liberation from this cycle of birth and death and add their light to touch the dark corners of the universe.” Aaron – Barbara Brodsky.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.