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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

Sat Aug 17, 2019, 04:12 PM

Aug 2019

In an imperfect universe, there is suffering and pain. And bad things do happen to good people. Obviously we must recognize this.

In addition, we all make mistakes in our choices and actions, but one hopes that we learn from those mistakes.

We are mortal. After we are born, we know at some point we will die.

But in the living, we hope to do good.

When my parents died, I did not ask the Creator why, or blame the Creator for a natural occurrence, because I already knew why.

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