Learning Comes From Many Sources

Oprah Winfrey and Maya Angelou are on TV saying that they are children of God. I think they are terrific ladies, but it seems to me that we are all children of God. I realize that some people don't behave as if they were children of God; in fact, they act as if they were the children of some devil. How do such people come to be? My opinion is that such people are simply people who were born to chaos and have not evolved out of it. One might ask, "Why does God make bad people? Why doesn't God just make people perfect in the beginning? Isn't God an all-powerful being who could do anything? Here is the answer that came to me. God is not only the Creator; God is the being who is being created. God is the totality of all things, the All-That-Is. Everything is creating Everything. We are the clay from which we are creating something better. We are evolving by way of trial and error. We cannot expect to have a perfect life with no challenges because it is challenges which form us. Some say that life doesn't make sense; it's just a lot of suffering. I believe there was a bumper sticker going around one time that said something like, "Life is hard; then you die." Would life make a lot more sense if it had two parts? And, those two parts are a body and an eternal soul? The eternal soul never dies; the body is something one has for a limited time and then it goes away leaving the eternal soul; but the eternal soul can go into a new body whenever it chooses and live another earth life. Perhaps what God created was the eternal soul, and then God gave us the responsibility of living a life of right and good. Each soul is to make the best of the body he/she gets. Each soul is responsible for learning what it takes. Each soul is responsible for evolving into someone good. Another way to look at this is that we come to Schoolhouse Earth to learn how to better ourselves. When someone we love leaves his or her body, he or she has not died. He or she will be born again.
What I have written here is not any sort of final truth. It is simply something for you to think about, something to stimulate your thinking. You may not believe any of it, but perhaps there is something here from which you can learn. I hope that there is something here that arouses your mind, or feeds your intuition. Even stupid people can sometimes teach us. It was something that Maya Angelou said that prompted me to write this. She is a very smart teacher.