Pain, for the uncovering of Spirit?

Alicia Adams
This is a beautiful reply to a deep question: why pain? Many years ago, when my infant daughter was sick, I determined to have an answer to the question: "Why do children suffer?" I surrounded myself with white Light, asked for answers from the highest level -- not the astral planes. I wanted my answer in writing, so that I could read it -- and I wanted a conversation! I made big circles on large sheets of paper to loosen my arm and gradually felt energy flowing through my arm and hand. Slowly, my pen formed an answer, letter by letter. I had no idea what was being written but it wasn't automatic writing: I willingly moved according to the sense of energy flowing through my arm/hand. I wrote: Your God does not will that you suffer.
I was stunned. I'd been told that suffering was our lot because it was the will of God. If not God's will, the usual Christian teaching had it wrong. I wrote my question: "Then why DO we suffer?"
The answer gradually unfolded over six weeks. In short, we suffer because we, as eternal spirits, chose to enter into dense materiality, where we weren't created to be. We got trapped: forgot who we were/are and acted against our true natures. In grief and self-judgment, we sank/sink, deeper. None of this is God's will for us. Our pain is our indication that we need to uncover who we really are and how we fit into Life. In this way, it can bring us into fuller awareness and consciousness (from our unconscious state) and, with much help from those who love us -- like the ones communicating with me! -- we will come Home.
Home: to our true selves. In our true selves, our only pain is through our identification and compassion with those who are still in ignorance and trapped.
After this experience, I began communicating regularly with these beings, who say that they are our family: they are as we were, and will be again. They call themselves the Teachers. Some call them the Angels. This communication has continued for 35 years. So yes, my pain because of my daughter's pain brought me great spiritual help and healing.
Years later, when my daughter was a young adult, her emotional pain caused her to contact these same Teachers. She and I were not in contact at the time, and I'd only once shared my contact with the Teachers with her. She told me later that she thought, "If my Mom can do this, so can I!"
This communication has been as powerful in her life as it has been in mine. We just need to know that it is possible, that they are always there, waiting for us to ask our questions and receive their help.

"suffering is to uncover spirit" hmmm I find that to be an interesting concept. I guess when it comes down to it it depends on each individuals concept of what suffering is and what spirit is. You could say that experiences (good or bad) build character. I have also heard the phrase "It is when you are on your knees that you begin to look up and pray" that could be a similar metaphor. We humans are sometimes at our deepest inner self when suffering mentally or physically. It can build or break spirit

I think that suffering can uncover spirit in those that choose to direct their energy into something spiritual when suffering. The lessons we learn when we suffer can teach us a lot about life sometimes. Experiences good or bad can be of value if we look at them in the right way. Me personally, I like to meditate...

Tom Arribas :-)
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