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Old Apr 13, 2008, 12:18 PM
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My spirituality is not religious in nature. So I can tell you where I'm coming from without referring to my religious beliefs.

God, however you think of him/her/"it", may be omnipotent but is not likely to be indiscriminate! Gravity, for example, is a law he/she/"it" made/allowed/watched show up so the physical world, of which I'm part, would work the way it does. And while he/she/"it" can go against gravity, and buses can fall off cliffs and airplanes out of the sky and not everyone die; who dies and who does not, is a function of each individual's life/spirituality and I can't know why he/she/"it" allows that other individual to have/not have whatever problem they have because that's not my life.

It is quite possible he/she/"it" has you knowing this person so you will consider/ask this question! Too, the other person's healing may take 11 years (kind of like it raining 40 days and 40 nights -- things take the time they take; sleeping beauty had to wait for the kiss -- a lot of spirituality is looking forward in faith that, "someday my prince will come" :-); we can't know the future. I'm sure you've seen It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart. We're all connected in spiritual as well as emotional ways in much too complicated a fashion to try to second guess?
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