YouTube: The Choice Factor
Last week I suggested that we enroll in this earthly school, with all its many challenges, by choice. I also pointed out that we human beings are the only creatures capable of imagining ourselves as spiritually incomplete. This translates into a reasonable explanation of why we often find ourselves struggling with life’s challenging conditions. The reasoning goes something like this: Of all the choices I could make, why would I choose a condition like this? If we accept that our soul is incomplete and we are here to complete it, the logical response is that there is something in this challenge that our soul needs to learn.
A man I knew was the passenger in a small plane that crashed. Though he survived, his physical recovery required months of hard work. In one of our conversations, he made a statement that went something like this: My soul must have really needed a major wake-up call to bring on something this big.
Did this man choose a plane crash as a necessary component of his soul’s required curriculum? I hope not. Last week I characterized Earth as the University of Environmental Adaptation. This man’s soul did not choose the buy cheap viagra online plane crash. The choice factor played into his decision to make the difficult journey to recover. He could have just as easily made the choice to give up, to let go of his damaged body altogether.
In other words, it’s not what happens, but our response to what happens that makes the difference.
Are we saying, then, that the purpose of Earth as the University of Environmental Adaptation is to solve problems? Yes, but only one: How does a spiritual being live successfully in a material environment? The environment can and does offer a variety of challenges. Recovery from physical damage, an unfavorable diagnosis, divorce, depression, low self-esteem, a feeling of spiritual emptiness, or just the basic fact of maintaining an aging body. Whatever the challenge, the choice is ours to either rise to the cialis canadian pharmacy occasion, or not. If we choose to meet the challenge, then we will adapt by learning to draw upon our soul’s limitless resources of life, love, power, and intelligence to make the best of this material environment that our soul currently inhabits.