What is the reason for suffering?

Joy lead to complacency and often sorrow is our greatest teacher. Both come to us because of the karma generated by our actions. However, the middle way leads to realisation of our divinity and the release from suffering as beautifully expressed by the poet William Blake: "Man was made for joy and woe, And when this we rightly know, Safely through the world we go." 

So, in my opinion the purpose of suffering is to enable us to grow. When we seek divinity and spiritual growth then the need for new suffering falls away. We do however continue to suffer from the karma of our former lives but eventually suffering will cease.

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VISION MY SON'S PASSING

Nearly 28 years ago, when I was pregnant, I was being driven past the churchyard on my way to the local hospital as I had very high blood pressure and swollen ankles. At the gate I saw a man with a spade in his hand and a big mound of earth just behind him. My husband said that there was no one there although the man was plain to see.
Our baby boy died 2 hours after he was born and instead of being buried where I expected, he was buried at the same place as where I saw the vision of the man with the spade.

Mrs Lillian R

The famous medium Doris Stokes knew from personal experience of the terrible suffering that a mother undergoes when she loses her baby. She spent many of her years as a medium reassuring, and proving to bereaved mothers that there was a place in the spirit world for their little ones.
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