I don't wonder that you struggled with this. It boggles the imagination. "Having to deal with unimaginable treachery and tragedy all around them and personally on a daily basis" is not something I am unmindful of, relatively speaking. But the truth is, Bob, God goes through these experiences with us, and he feels the same things we feel. It is literally true: "In all your afflictions he is afflicted."
PAPER 2 - THE NATURE OF GOD, Section 2, says at line 64: "God is eternally and infinitely perfect, he cannot personally know imperfection as his own experience, but he does share the consciousness of all the experience of imperfectness of all the struggling creatures of the evolutionary universes of all the Paradise Creator Sons. The personal and liberating touch of the God of perfection overshadows the hearts and encircuits the natures of all those mortal creatures who have ascended to the universe level of moral discernment. In this manner, as well as through the contacts of the divine presence, the Universal Father actually participates in the experience with immaturity and imperfection in the evolving career of every moral being of the entire universe."
If we would inflict such "unimaginable treachery and tragedy" on our fellows, and if God does actually participate with us in our experience with immaturity and imperfection, I can only conclude that we are very unkind to our loving Creator to put him through much of what we do. And that translates to being very unkind to one another while pawning it off as "God's will." I can see where taking a moment now and then throughout the day to touch base with Deity, to be humble, is a good idea. But I would also aspire to emerge from that peace which passes all understanding to rise up against the ignorance and prejudice that keeps people in bondage to an angry, hostile, jealous and/or militant God. It boggles the mind what mankind does -- and does not do! -- in the name of religion.
_________________ Gerdean O'Dell Author: "Secrets of Promise"
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