When people experience tragedy, cruelty, loss, or injustice, one of the most painful questions they may ask is:
“If God exists, why did God not stop this?”
There is no single answer that will satisfy every person, and a Divine Healer should never pretend to know exactly why a painful event occurred. We must be especially careful not to use spiritual beliefs to blame someone for their suffering or dismiss the reality of what they endured.
Within one spiritual perspective, the soul exists before entering physical life. Before coming into physicality, the soul may choose areas of learning, relationships, and experiences that support its growth and evolution.
The human personality does not consciously remember making these choices. From the human perspective, we see the immediate experience and the pain it caused. From the soul’s perspective, physical life may be one part of a much larger journey.
The Sacred Gift of Free Will
Free will allows human beings to make genuine choices. Those choices may be loving or harmful, compassionate or selfish, healing or destructive.
If God prevented every painful consequence, corrected every decision, or removed every difficult experience, human beings would no longer possess true freedom of choice. We would not be free to learn, change, grow, or experience the consequences of our actions.
Within this belief system, God’s lack of intervention does not mean that God approved of the harm, abandoned the person, or believed they deserved to suffer. It may mean that God honors the soul’s journey and the freedom given to every human being—even when that freedom is misused.
Another person’s free will can affect our lives. Their harmful decision remains their responsibility. It is not proof that the client chose that person’s behavior, caused the harm, or deserved what happened.
The Experience and the Lesson Are Not Always the Same
If the soul chose an area of growth before entering physical life, that does not necessarily mean it selected every detail of every painful event.
The intended lesson may not be the suffering itself. The deeper lesson might involve:
• Discovering personal strength
• Learning to establish boundaries
• Reclaiming one’s voice
• Developing compassion
• Recognizing personal worth
• Ending a harmful pattern
• Learning to receive help
• Choosing forgiveness without permitting further harm
• Becoming an advocate for others
• Remembering one’s connection to the Divine
A person may have been harmed through someone else’s free will and still decide what meaning, wisdom, or purpose they will eventually create from that experience.
God’s Presence May Look Different
Divine intervention may not always appear as God preventing an event. Sometimes it may appear through the strength to survive it, the person who offers help, the inner voice that says “leave,” the unexpected opportunity to begin again, or the realization that breaks a long-standing pattern.
A Divine Healer should never say:
“Your soul chose this, so you should accept it.”
Instead, the healer might gently ask:
“Without excusing what happened, is there something your soul is ready to understand, reclaim, or transform?”
Spiritual perspective should open a door to healing, not close the door on a person’s pain.