Why?

WHY?

A professor of philosophy had given his students an examination. The last question simply read, “Why?”

The professor passed only two of his students. One had written, “Why not?” and the other had answered, “Because.”

Some of life’s most profound questions are put in a single word, why. Why must people suffer? Why can’t I be like everyone else? Why do I have this disease? Why am I poor and unlucky? Why did mother have to die? Why am I a victim of the floods? The earthquake? The fire? Why is it that my son is missing in action? Why can’t we have a child? Why did I have to lose my job? Why was I raped? Why wasn’t I chosen? Why was I born in such dismal condition? Why can’t I choose my own death? Why?

Well, why not? We are all subject to the same. It rains on the just and the unjust. Life is not fair. There are as many circumstances as there are individuals. The law of probability just is: one out of so many will be affected no matter what it is. Nobody said life will be easy. Life is difficult. Everyone has a choice. Murphy has a point—when something can go wrong, it will. You were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. You didn’t care for yourself. You were warned. You knew better, but you did nothing about it. It’s genetic. The devil lurks in dark places. It was an accident. It was mere coincidence.

Well, because. Because the world is not perfect, but the world is arriving at perfection. Because each experience has a lesson in it for us. Because God wills good for those who love God. Because when we break nature’s laws, the consequence is decay, illness, and death. Because genes hold in them blueprints of biological life, physiological tendencies, and more. Because circumstances carry in them dynamics, consequences, and results all their own. Because the human character is still being transformed from lower to higher understanding, from selfish to unselfish intentions, from human to godly perceptions. Because everything has its time, its course and its purpose.

Furthermore, there are some things we cannot know. There are some things we need not know. And there are some things we will not know. So just live life in the best way you know how. Trust in the higher power of God. Search the inner knowledge which is Spirit given. Put on the Christ Mind. And you won’t have to ask, “Why?”

May 31, 2010