ID:
050
Type of Post:
comment
Keywords:
higher power, world view, Unitarian Universalist
Religious Affiliation:
Unitarian Universalist
Type of Loss:
stillbirth
Codes (Bakker):
Age at time of post:
unknown
Living children at time of post?:
yes
Time Since Loss:
2 weeks (Jan. 2010)
Months since loss (at time of post):
0.5
Gender:
F
Images in Post:
NA
Date of Post:
1/25/2010
Date of Access:
6/14/2012
Number of Comments:
NA
URL of post:
http://www.glowinthewoods.com/home/2010/1/25/the-inescapability-of-karma-maybe.html#comments
I sat through a (Unitarian Universalist) sermon yesterday, about the Universalist idea of salvation - that everyone is equally loved by some higher power and that that love isn't dependent on how 'good' we are - almost the opposite of karma. I wanted to really like that idea, but I had trouble placing the other half of what that means. It doesn't matter how good we are, so my son didn't die because of some wrongdoing on my part - but what does that leave me? Did he die because the universe is cruel and random? Because that higher power that loves everyone so much just does things like this? I think it would be really comforting to find a world view in which this made sense, but I just haven't.
Codes (Paris):