Choosing a Life and a Purpose

I want to take a few minutes to discuss my last blog, A Choice and Purpose; Entering this Earthly Realm. The post covered my ideas of our life before entering this Earthly realm. This part of our lives is rarely discussed. Even in the time I spent in church and Sunday school as a child, I don’t remember any discussion of life before birth. Do a search on the web of life before birth, and you’ll mostly find information on the unborn child, purely physical interpretations of life before birth. There is little mention of the real life before birth. That place we come from before entering a body. Try a Google search on “soul before birth” and the first two sites on the list are paranormal and new age sites. I find it odd that this would not be an area more wholly covered by religion.

One of the greatest gifts we have is that of free will. We are free to do as we please, whatever suits us, whatever we desire. That’s an incredibly powerful gift, and not to be taken lightly. Now given that, in human form, we have this amazing gift, wouldn’t it make sense that we also have free will in the spirit realm, before incarnating into human form? If we have free will there, then it makes sense that we are able to choose when, where, and as whom we incarnate. With our free will, we make the choice of which life we want to experience. Ponder that for a minute, we chose this life. I chose my life, you chose your life. We are exactly where we wanted to be. Now, I suppose you could regret that choice, but I assume the soul body to be infinitely more aware of what it needs and wants, and therefore I assume that it made good decisions. That means, I’m experiencing the life that I wanted to experience. I’m living through all the wonderful events and all the painful traumas that I wanted to experience.

In searching for a purpose in life I find it necessary to look at this time before life begins. It’s a bit tough since no one really knows what that is like, but I assume it to be a place of pure bliss. Missing from this pre-Earth experience is physical feeling. We are here in a physical body, and before we came here we weren’t. So that must have something to do with the purpose. I figure we’re here to experience physical sensation and the emotion that accompanies it. In actuality, all of us fulfill our purpose simply by being here. That should take the pressure off, and now we are free to live our lives and enjoy whatever path we follow.

You see, I don’t believe its luck at all. I believe its choice. Many even choose a life of pain, just to experience that which cannot be experienced in non-physical form. I like to compare it to video games. Even if you’re not into gaming, you may have noticed the games that are popular. Many are games of war or crime, and are often very violent, because it’s something that we can’t experience in real life. Just like the physical sensation (both pain and pleasure) is something that can’t be experienced in soul form. That is why some choose a hard life. It’s the hard life that experiences the full gamut of physical sensations and emotions. Think of an entire lifetime; what life would be more rewarding after completion? One full of challenges, trials, and tribulations, or one of a trust fund where you coast through life with little challenge.

I had a difficult time wrapping my arms around these ideas when I first heard them, and when I first started pondering them. But as I’ve given it more time, I’ve become more convinced that we chose to be here in this life.

I’m really fascinated by this topic, and I’d love to hear your thoughts. What do you feel is the purpose in life? Where do you think we were before we entered our human form? Do you think we choose our life or do you think something/someone else assigns it?

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