I don’t think everything that happen’s has a reason, but many things do. I do believe in cause and effect, and that the things we experience are influenced by the things we do and the choices we make. But in the end, most things ties back to our choices. Only a few things that happen are pre-ordained, for our life experience and learning.
But even then our choices and other people’s choices, determine HOW we experience those things, for better or worse. In the end, it is our own choices we must concern ourself with. That is how we learn.
From my experience, it is 1 part karma (destiny) and 9 parts free will. No higher power has ever wished bad things to happen to us, but those that did happen are usually the results of our life choices or soul lessons we chose to learn from. The excepetion may be childhood, but even then, on a soul level, we chose to be born into a situation, knowing that it could go in many different directions.
Likewise the good things that happened were the result of life choices and free will. Destiny happens in a moment. What flows from that moment we decide by our actions and choices. For better or worse.
One of the greatest lessons, though sometimes painful, is our ability to accept when things don’t happen the way we want them too. All parties involved have free will and we must accept their right to free will, as much as we want it for ourselves. – The greatest lesson of all is to walk away from our difficult experiences, not with anger or hate, but with love in our heart, no matter how things go. But then we must choose for ourselves to walk away from that which is not good for us.
Pain passes only when we let it go and embrace our past experiences with unconditional love and blessings for all concerned. If we do not, then we are destined to repeat the lesson until we master it. And spiritual mastery only comes from unconditional love and forgiveness.
It is always our choice if we embrace or walk away from a situtation. Ever decision has consequences. But if those consequences are good or bad, positive or negative is up to us to decide. Destiny sometimes happens, but how we experience it, is always up to us. If it is good or bad is a choice “we make” for ourselves. Every life experience has lessons. We choose what we wish to learn from those lessons. And our choice is what decides our future destiny. Choices made with love and forgiveness always lead to the best destinies.
Through David's Eye 