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Every religion and philosophy worth its salt tries to answer this type of question: why do bad things happen to good/innocent people? And we can well wonder: why do bad things happen to harmless animals?

I'll share the perspective I've learned from Abraham-Hicks.

We are all Source Energy (God, if you choose) in physical form. In fact, our physical self is a tiny component of all that we are. It's not that we'll be Source Energy when we die. We are Source Energy this very moment - and always. Right now, we're Source Energy and physical expression at the same time.

Source Energy loves to come forth into physical expression for a couple of reasons. First, with every experience Source Energy has in physical expression, Source actually expands. It becomes more than it was before as a result of each new event that has never happened in exactly that way before. As Source Energy expands, the Universe expands. This is how all-that-is continues to grow and to thrive.

Source Energy loves physical expression, too, because physical expression offers far more contrast than non-physical existence. Contrast is that which is not liked or wanted, and whenever a physical being encounters contrast, that being immediately sends off rockets of desire for the opposite of the contrast. Then Source gets to "ride that rocket of desire," in Abraham's terminology. Source actually LIVES the desire that its physical counterpart gave birth to. And if the physical person or animal is sufficiently relaxed and happy, it, too, will experience the fulfillment of the desire that was sparked by encountering that which was not wanted.

When Source came forth in the form of each of us-and as animals, bugs, blades of grass, you-name-it-it did not want a particularly easy time of it anymore than we would go to Disney World and sit on a park bench all day. Source WANTS contrast-things not wanted-in order to evoke our desire. And we could probably say that Source wants INTENSE contrast in order to evoke our INTENSE desire, for that constitutes the true thrill ride of physical existence for Source-and for us, too.

Suffering, abuse, and cruelty evoke intense desire for kindness, gentleness, respect, etc., and the Source Energy component of any being who suffers is experiencing intense kindness as a result of those desires. And the person or animal can experience that far preferable scenario, too, if they can take their mental focus off the suffering and place it on what they want to happen.

That, of course,

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