God's ways are inscrutable. He directs and guides every person's steps through His counsel, always for the person's own good, even if he does not recognize it; and even the smallest event has its purpose, for nothing that affects the individual is without purpose and meaning. And if you humans bear this in mind and have faith in divine guidance, you will endure your earthly life more easily and also benefit from it. Everything is based on God's will and the more devotedly you submit to it, the more beneficial it will be for you. What is often incomprehensible to you humans can bring about the greatest spiritual successes, and therefore God often puts people in situations which shake their entire thinking and turn it towards realization.... The individual's path through life will always have his spiritual development as its goal, and when this goal is reached the soul thanks its creator for all the pain and suffering it had to endure. And if the human being is incapable of change on earth, then the soul's detachment from the form must be a painful process for it so that it will still be purified as a result. But a change of attitude can eliminate this process of detachment, God's will can prolong the human being's life if the prerequisites for it are given, if the soul decides to live life only for the sake of spiritual maturation. For spiritual development is the meaning and purpose of life on earth and every event is only a means to reach the goal. As soon as man loosens his ties with the world of his own free will, he comes closer to the eternal divine, and then his life is only an ascent to the heights, and physical suffering contributes to this. The world with its attractions and temptations must be overcome, then earthly life can no longer harm the soul, and then it can also be preserved for further spiritual development. For God is extremely wise and extremely kind.... God allows what is beneficial for the soul, even if it seems incomprehensible to the human being, for He alone knows what the soul needs and what will bring it spiritual liberation....

amen

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