Is God Random? Poem by Saiom Shriver

Theists who reject
the philosophy of
reincarnation
might assume that
God is randomly
cruel.

Theists who accept that
we've all had many lives
believe that answers for
present suffering are often
found in past lives.

Souls who don't learn
lessons through love's expansion
are sometimes required
to experience the opposite
side of the coin of
having been unfaithful,
miserly, undisciplined
judgmental.

When we arrive at a state
of transcensding earthly desires,
of no negative or positive karma
('the chains of gold bind as strongly
as the chains of iron') and no
spiritual ignorance, we are free
to merge forever in God.

When we become perfect Love
we are free to merge in perfect Love.