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When I was younger I spent several weeks with mentally retarded children over the course of my summer camp vacations, and often wondered about the nature of their existence.
My frame of reference was my reality, and based on my way of living in this world, it appeared, superficially, that I enjoyed a qualitative advantage over these children. I was wrong. Rarely, have I ever lived and loved as purely as these children (and even retarded adults) do on a daily basis. (I know I tread the line of romancing their existence, but this "purity" was a consistent vibration I enjoyed whenever I spent time with them on their terms) Just because the nature of their inner lives confounds us, does not diminish the quality or meaning of their existence.
In my cosmology, souls choose the form of their corporeal reincarnation. I believe children like your daughter have chosen their present incarnation in order to experience something necessary to the process of the perfection of their souls. Tests have measured your daughter's IQ, but they can never measure her Soul Quotient, nor her Life Quotient, and they can't measure the spiritual alchemy that is occurring within her during this lifetime. I believe your daughter is living a very meaningful existence. Her soul is experiencing an existence beyond "intelligence", beyond "articulation"--perhaps she is here to teach herself about simply "being". You and your husband facilitate this lesson for her everyday, and that is a blessing.
And there is the coincidence of incarnations. Just as she chose you as her parents, I believe you chose her as your child in the intersection of your desires. There are attendant lessons you may have "invited" into your life with her: unconditional loving, daily compassion, humility, sacrifice . . .perhaps these were experiences your souls found necessary on their travels. (Having cared for my infirmed father for many years prior to his death, and dealing with my mother's recurrent cancers has certainly taught me many meaningful life lessons I couldn't have learned in any other manner--lessons I believe I brought myself here to learn.)
I believe that if your daughter completes her "mission" in this lifetime, she will move on to another incarnation in a form which she feels best suits her next lesson . I believe individual spirits/souls are intelligent and make such decisions as components of the "Great Mind" alluded to in the Webster definition of god we referenced last week.
Rick |
