There's More to Life Than This: Healing Messages, Remarkable Stories, and Insight About the Other Side from the Long Island Medium by Caputo Theresa

Author:Caputo, Theresa [Caputo, Theresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2013-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

God’s Lesson Plans

I’m under the impression that you have one main lesson to learn in each lifetime, with many smaller teachings tucked into that journey. They include compassion, patience, friendship, selflessness, joy, peace, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, self-control, and unconditional love. For each lifetime you experience, you choose, and then review with God and your primary guide, what you hope to accomplish and what challenges you’ll run into as you go. You also choose your family and body, both of which can be related to your lesson. You do this knowing it’ll help you get to a new level of spiritual growth.

After your life review, you continue to learn lessons on the Other Side, and at some point, you can do one of two things. Your first option is to stay in Heaven and learn lessons for a while, where teacher-like souls monitor your progress. One reason a soul might choose to hang back is if a previous lifetime felt too hard, and it isn’t ready or anxious to return right away. The alternative is to choose a body and return to this world to learn your new lessons at a faster rate, which advances your soul more quickly than if you do this in Heaven. It’s like in college, when you can opt to travel abroad or do an internship for a semester versus taking classes; the “real world” experience teaches you things you could never learn in a classroom. Your soul can appreciate fresh perspectives by experiencing different religions, ethnicities, jobs, and family dynamics that cause you to gain greater appreciation and compassion for others. The good news is, I don’t think there’s a ticking clock that limits the time you have to learn your lessons—you can come back as many times as you need to try again.

The main way you learn lessons in this world is through events that force you to use the traits you’re meant to acquire. For example, having a certain disease might teach you about priorities, being in a challenging marriage may require patience and self-reflection, or being bullied as a child could help you learn sympathy toward others. I believe people are placed in our lives to help us to grow and learn as well. Your lessons and purpose may also relate to advancing society in some way—say, through humanitarian, artistic, or scientific efforts. Or it may have to do with a spiritual mission related to self-sacrifice or spreading ideas. No matter what, we’re all here to learn how to be better people, and souls, for others. Just as we need their divine guidance, inspiration, and intervention, Spirit needs our capable and eager bodies to act on their behalf.

Since we choose our bodies and the lessons that come with living that life, those with crippling imperfections—a physical handicap, maybe, or a psychiatric struggle related to depression or OCD—have done so to grow their souls in some way. I wish my body were a lot of things it’s not—relaxed instead of anxious, five foot seven and a hundred twenty pounds instead of five foot one and .

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