A Comment from Toni The Talker has opened my awareness to what I really meant in a recent poem of mine.
In my post Why Must Some People Suffer So Much? I said:
“There has to be a reason that I will never know As long as I live in this world.”
This was a bit of poetic license.
It turns out that even an awakened soul like me can still have an emotional objection to suffering, even though my intellect clearly understands that the “reason” is karma.
When I say I will never know the reason, I mean that emotionally I will never accept it. It means that I am not comfortable saying that it’s okay.
“There has to be a reason that I will never know As long as I live in this world.”
I liked those lines. I took it to mean that as a human there's only so much you can understand and that afterward in "heaven" you will with soul knowledge both restored and gained, understand why people suffer. I'm actually finishing off a short…
