By Paulo Coelho
God’s decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour.
(Maktub)
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well it takes us some time to realize this illuminating fact n by that time v end up questioning gods decisions
China’s 12 may earthquake took away apporximately 50 000 lives and figures are still counting. The cyclone swept away the lives of poor villagers in Myanmmar and displaces tens of thousands of the people.
Why do such things happen? why I can’t find the answers to some of life’s questions.
can you?
“God’s decisions are always mysterious, but they are always in our favour”
Agnieszka, this doesn’t necessarily mean that God will make our sick child better, or makes sure that we get what we want, it’s much more about accepting what’s been thrown at us in life, and learning from it, gaining strength from it, growing through it. The mother of the teenager who killed a man needs God more than ever, so she can accept her son’s crime, and help him ‘get better’ as it were. God’s love is unconditional, and I hope that the mother will learn from that. What a huge lesson for her.
Love, You have done nothing wrong, but if you feel you have then make amends by learning to accept that you are great, and by enjoying the journey you are walking even though this is hard sometimes.
I believe that God lives in me; I even go further to say that I believe that I am part God. And that makes sense, for if everybody, EVERYBODY, could believe that then life would be love and love would be life.
Wow.
gx
Well, then we have to redefine “favour” totally. Even to a point where the word becomes meaningless.
Evolution will proceed, no matter if we consider a particular cross-section of the endless course of events as “favourable” or “disastrous”. What do we know of the ultimate consequences anyway?
All we know is that evolution requires destruction, pain and death. Night is as natural as day, I am afraid.
I believe that there is always a Divine Plan which, we, with our minds cannot understand, because we judge with our earhly perception. Right and wrong, Happines and Unhappines, black and white, our senses respond to the three-dimensional space and we are preoccupied with the problems of this Life, time and space. I deeply believe that there is a better place and life than this one and that, we have come here.. to become “warriors of the Light” and become LOVE and free our Souls -Psycho[Ψυχή= butterfly, in Greek]. We are all ONE. PEACE and Love to all of you, Thelma
My friends grandmother has cancer, she is 75 years old and is going through chemotherapy. When i see her she is happy, and lives with it. She is not unhappy, yes she is uncomfortable and she said to me, ‘when i go into chemo and i am sitting there next to an 8 year going through the same treatment, i cant complain’ God decisions are mysterious, always a lesson, no matter where we are in our lives and who we meet to teach us.
Aditya, very simple answer to your question:
Because there has to be a balance between good and evil. We are not in Paradise, but we are put on this earth to battle. We suffer and struggle, but we also have our good moments.
Death is only a transition. We do not cry over the fact someone is dead, but we cry about the absence of that person in our life. We are selfish but we all have our lifes to live and our own paths and death comes to us all.
That what must happen, shall happen, and so it is written by God.
Maktub.
well Paulo !
that is the only way ain’t it ? I mean one cannot be religious if one does not beleive in this. but just tell me why does not god us wishes in line with his wishes, so there is no conflict, no pain !
love]
aditya
Dear Paul,
I don’t know if this will help you a bit, but I have an example:
There was this lady whose child became very ill; he was dying; and she was praying desperately to God to save him and…he got better, was cured; when he grew up, as a teenager, he killed a man. And she…crying…regretted…and asked God…”why didn’t You take him then..?”
love
Agnieszka
Yes, I believe that God always wants the best for us.
love
Agnieszka
I have always thought that there was something wrong with others, but it was wrong with me.
Everytime I have been in pain I thought there was someone (my family, friends, boyfriend) hurting me in a very cruel way, but I believed that because of my own wrong perspective.
I should do something to repair the wrong that I have done.
Love.
yeh perfectly right!!! God’s always on our side