James on Perfect Manifesto has asked some great questions about life, and had given some thoughtful and amusing answers.

He said he will give us 3 answers to life questions we may have been asking:

1. If time travel is possible, why have we never met a time traveler?
2. Why do bad things happen to good people?
3. What is the meaning of life

I was intrigued, so here’s my take on these questions!

If time travel is possible, why have we never met a time traveler?

If time travel were possible, isn’t it likely that the people would stay under the radar and not announce when/where they’re from?

After all, wouldn’t people think they had a mental problem and were off their meds? There are plenty of folks in the psych wards who claim to be all sorts of personages, from different time periods.

It may well be possible that any bonafide time traveler would be met with deep skepticism instead of being believed?

Could you have met one and laughed it off as crazy-talk? LOL!

Why do bad things happen to good people?

“He makes his sun rise on people whether they are good or evil. He lets rain fall on them whether they are just or unjust.”

Matthew 5:45

Good or bad things happen to us all. It isn’t dependent on merit or because of punishment. Period.

Years ago when I was in 2 strict evangelical churches (consecutively), because of mine and my daughter’s severe health issues the church leaders decided that God was punishing me for undisclosed sins, and instead of receiving the emotional and spiritual support, I was branded an irredeemable sinner, and given hours of corrective “talks”. My daughter had been told that her health issues resulted from my spiritual state and that created problems between us.

Much later, I found that because I didn’t know how to handle the severe stress I was going through, my immune system took a deep hit, and I developed chronic Shingles. My lifelong battle with severe migraines was actually due to my allergies, and my doctor had said that sometimes the only symptom a person has is migraines. Taking a 24 allergy tablet has resolved most of them, except if any of my other trigger create one.

As for my daughter, we found that not only did she have severe IBS, but she also has Celiac disease which created all the pain and misery she went through.

All of the judgementalism, the many long corrective sessions I went through, the shunning we experienced, was wrongly based. Only after we had gone through years of suffering in the churches did someone mention Matthew 5:45, and they somewhat backed off, but the damage had been done.

Coupled with all that garbage we went through there, the emotional and physical abuse from my mother and combined to bring me to the point where I felt I no longer deserved to walk on this earth or to breathe the air. I had formulated my exit strategy from this life, but thanks to what I attribute to heavenly intervention, I met an older man who taught me about the native American spiritual oath he was following, and I became re-acquainted with a loving, kind God who was working things out on my behalf.

If you are going through some dark times in your life, please remember the spiritual truism of Matthew 5:45.

Years ago I had 4 psychics approach me in the span of a couple of years, telling me they felt very strongly they had a message I needed to hear. To a person, they said almost the identical thing: which was “I had agreed to all my troubles before coming into this life.”

I had an opportunity to speak more with the 4th person, and she said yes, this is a truism for each of us. “Why?” I asked. “Why would I do something so stupid and very difficult?”

She said it was because it was the only way we could learn the deep soul lessons and to develop the life skills we needed. If life were easy we just wouldn’t willingly put ourselves through all that to learn those things. Wow!

So this isn’t about victim blaming, but if we have all agreed to our troubles before coming into this life, we also knew we have what it takes to go through it, even though it never feels like we do when we’re in the middle of it.

This may be news to you right now, but you have what it takes to get through what you’re dealing with, and this experience will develop far more strength than you ever knew you had!

Keep going!

What is the meaning of life?

The answer James gave “In Douglas Adams book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, when the computer Deep Thought is asked the meaning of the life, the universe and everything, the artificial intelligence system eventually answers with “42.” is amusing, but also thought provoking too!

Apparently in the ASCII language, the most basic computer software, ’42′ is the designation for an asterisk, which can stand in for anything or everything!

The question “What is the meaning of life?” is too broad, and instead we need to ask “What meaning do I attach to my life?” and even that will not be definite, for it will be different for each of us and throughout our lives we go through different stages and phases, so that meaning is subject to change over time.

Since there is no definitive answer, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one, except that we get to choose for ourselves what we want it to be!

That’s very exciting isn’t it? Having all the choices before us simply requires us to open up to the possibilities the universe will bring to us!

Even difficult and painful events in our lives can be the catalyst we needed to move somewhere else, try something new or develop skills we had but weren’t fully using!

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