Inspirational E-Book published Jan 2023.
Not a religious work, but a concept examination of my beliefs.
What of the stories of The Beginning as written in the Holy Books? To answer that question, I take you back in time to a period and places without newspapers, television, Internet, radio, or even schooling for the masses. It doesn't matter whether we go to Galilee, India, China, Africa, or ancient Egypt. The 'conditions' were ripe for stories of explanation.
People wanted to know where they came from, where they were going, and why things happened the way they did. Before there was an educated populace, information was obtained from government and clerics. There were also travelling storytellers and, of course, rumour.
This was a time before it was fashionable to question the government and clerics. Superstition, idol worship, and left-over religious rites from centuries past all co-mingled in a soup from which the ordinary man had to take nourishment for his soul.
I think Man has always wanted to know more than he does. He also wanted to explain why things happen. A frequent question from the youngest of our species is 'why'. We don't always answer fully, or truthfully. This is due to our knowledge of the limited ability to understand of a child.
I believe that what God did was create the set of rules and conditions that made all things possible. In fact, by doing so, he didn't need to make an actual event take place. His rules set the correct measurements of all the various elements, (some that we know nothing about) and things began to happen.
Look around you or just think about it. Even atheists can try this one. Everything that exists anywhere does so in an exact, precise way. It is all so mathematically perfect and faultless time after time. Grass, flowers, insects, birds, fish, mammals, clouds, wind, and the sea, all exist and have existed in perfect harmony for longer than any can remember.
There is NOTHING random in the Universe. Nothing at all! Scientists have measured and tested, theorized, and discovered many amazing things. The thing that is so amazing is the perfect predictability of the Universe.
If the right conditions exist something happens, good or bad. Hurricanes and tidal waves, earthquakes, and disease all happen because very specific conditions and/or elements are present or absent.
Our Universe is not unfair. In fact, it is extremely fair and chooses no favourites. The laws of the Universe, as created by God, leave nothing to chance. Miracles DO happen! They happen every second of every day and in every place, you can imagine. One miracle is in the immensity of the Plan. God's Plan for the Universe works at every level from the tiniest neutrino to the largest black hole in outer space.
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Intuitively, I know I've lived many lifetimes, and none more interesting than the one I'm living now. However, being born an old soul somehow did not excuse me from the same job I share with you and that is learning to craft a positive attitude about
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