But lots of times we think things are wrong when they are not really so. We have been told things are wrong—we do not know for ourselves. God “tempts” us to prove things.

The gaining of wisdom is all we are here for—here in God’s mind. We learn, and God proves, as much by our wrong deeds as by our right ones. By lying and suffering for it we learn first to wish for truth, then to work to gain it; then finally we love it and live it.

But not all in one little span of life perhaps. That is the trouble with people who are so greatly worried over right and wrong—their noses are always to earth and a death makes them lose the trail. They see a single being in one short span of life; instead of looking up and taking all life and all lives as a Whole.

But they, too, are learning.

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