Suffering...

Why do we have suffering?

We live in a world of endless suffering

Muslims suffer!

Christians suffer!

Hindus, Buddhists and Jews suffer!

Sikhs, Baha'i, the many religions, the many non believers... suffer!!

Often, inspite of the joy of life and Nature's love

The suffering is profound

and seems endless!

But God is not

both Good and Evil

God is the Creator and Creation!! The sum of all!

and we have been given free will

through both evolution and divine will

to achieve, build, learn, create, share!

and to make peace!

Suffering is most often, human made, wars and terror most certainly are!

Humanity suffers

because humanity chooses to inflict suffering

both in terror, war, retaliation

in defense

or in attack

the cycles are inflicted and re-inflicted

attacked, defended, re-attacked and re-defended

Those who invoke hatred

invoke the beast inside!

Yet for self evolution, we must meet ourselves!

within we can confront evil

We have free will to prove our selves worthy

and immense suffering through life

comes from hatred

hatred in the mind that infests and infects the minds of others,

which corodes hearts and destroys the soul!

Peace can never come when hatred abounds

Hatred fuels endless suffering!

Only when that monster is tamed

and put back into its cave

to sleep, or die

or be re-trained into seeing the light

of righteousness...

can peace become the human way

humanity in evolution

yet at the mercy of the inner beast?

Seek the words of peace!

A shared vision

Not a shared blindness

A shared future

Not a shared slavery

Victors in terror!? There is no victory in endless destruction

the peace can only be made, constructed...

Built!

There is no peace in subjugation!

Peace is a joint effort

It is never demanded

inflicted

nor achieved through subjugation

because the wounds would fester

and the disease spread

and the plague of suffering and more hatred

continues...

Many will say, demand peace!

Surely God, if Good, must intervene, make us good!? end all suffering!?

With our free will, God cannot impose peace upon us, we must all want it, and work to achieve it, it is through free will that we prove ourselves worthy!

we must learn of the monster

inside, its name is hatred

and why we let it control us...

Words are just words.... yet

Words are thoughts - of our mind, heart and soul

words are memory, history, utterances of suffering and pain

words are deceit, evil

words are peaceful

words are truths

words shape us

as we make them

we are what we think and what we think

makes us what we are

as the soul waits to greet us

the heart bleeds

and the mind continues

aloof...

We suffer..

the rage of hatreds

humanity

suffers!

The teachings of peace in Jesus Christ

can save us all!

Because a good Christian is a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Bahai, and all of humanity

and a good Muslim, is a Christian, a Jew, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu, a Bahai

and many the righteous too in all religions!

Today I am you, and you are me, said the poet of words

that can make us what we are or want to be!

©Jason Christopher 2018

We all feel the same

when the soul speaks, and the hatred of minds, and damaged hearts, are switched off to quiet..

my own theology, but probably yours too