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Law of What Needs to Happen First

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Law of what needs to happen first --before the next thing --before the miracle --before more pain --or more joy Where is God in this sequence, at each juncture? Lately I’ve been mulling over an existential story I’m working on writing. And in the midst of existentialism I came up with my own Einstein theory=the Law of What Needs to Happen First. We all have at one time or another questioned God, gods, or the universe. When confronted with evil, injustice, the ugliness of humanity. There are never any easy answers. Even the questions are difficult. So hard in fact we begin to wonder if there is a God, gods, or comic book heroes that control/avenge the universe. I mean if there were such mythic being(s) then WHY? Why do certain things happen? Of course we never seem to ask why good stuff happens. Maybe because we’re too busy being happy. Anyway holding the baby of a friend who had joined the community, left, divorced (like a double divorce analysts would ...