KARMA

According to the Wikipedia karma is, "humans have the choice  of good over evil and suffer the consequences." Have I done more good in my life than evil?  Have I done enough evil to suffer the consequences forever?  Does every good deed we do cross out an evil act we did in the past?  If one was a prostitute and became a nun, will they be saved? Do people become ministers and priests to erase the evil they have done and be save? Are there people out in the world who have done no evil, ever?  Purest virgins?  Who judges the evil we have done?  To me no one else matters but God, he who has the final judgement. 

When I was a child, my mom "forgot" to have me baptized.  Growing up my peers in school knew this.  One good Catholic girl said to me, "You have committed the original sin!"  Wow!  What a thing to say to a kid!  I always wondered what she was talking about.  I did nothing accept was born into the world.  What choice did I have anyway?  Later on, when I turned 21, my mom must have felt guilty and must have thought if I died before I was baptized I was surely going to hell.  She was bound and determined to have me baptized.  So, at the age of 22 years old I was baptized by immersion at the Disciples of Christ Christian Church in front of the entire congregation. I think a lot of her worry and guilt came on after I went to college and started drinking and experimenting with members of the opposite sex.  I was surely damned after that! lol!

So, does baptism give us good karma for life?  Does attending church, being a good Christian, and partaking in communion weekly give us good karma?  Does God believe in karma?  I feel that God is the one who chooses what consequences we must suffer.

I lost my job a year ago.  I think that was karma kicking my ass!  I have been  working three part-time jobs while searching for a full-time, better-paying job for over a year now.  I sometimes think to myself," How long is God going to make me suffer and how much more can I take?" I also was involved in a car accident almost six months ago.  I was the victim, having had my car totaled and having injured my back, neck and shoulder.  I went to doctors, chiropractors and physical therapists for well over three months.  Was this bad karma, or was it good karma?  It might be considered good karma.  It was a deputy sheriff who hit me by running a stop sign.  Everyone I told the story to had the same reaction, "Cha-Ching!"

I have attempted to change my karma.  I bought good luck charms and evil eyes.  I have even done spells on evil with candles. (I took a Witchcraft class in college.)  You light a black candle for the evil, a white candle for good, and a neutral colored one representing the new.  I don't know if it worked, but it sure made me feel better!

Do people who get cancer have bad karma?  Have they all done evil?  I can answer for at least one such person personally.  My husband, Jeff, had cancer 10 years ago.  He is a very good person, who I believe never did any evil in his life.  Well, I guess karma or God figured that out and saved him. There are people who were good people and died of cancer.  I don't think cancer picks good or evil, and I don't believe that God chooses people to get cancer.

If you get hit by a car or in an auto accident and die, does that mean you were evil or had bad karma?  I f you win the lottery or become famous does that mean you did good deeds in life or have good karma?  The meaning of life - what does it all mean?  Who can answer these questions?  No one but God, I guess.  Maybe when we die we are told if we did more good than evil.  Some people still believe that those who are evil go to hell and those who have been good go to heaven.  I believe, however, that God loves us all and will save us all.  I don't even know if I truly believe that it makes a difference if you were baptized or went to church.  I have always felt, since I was little, that as long as you believe in God, he will save you.  It is in your heart if you are a true believer.  You could be baptized and could be a regular at church and still not be a true believer in God.  I feel that a lot of people were forced into religion by their parents as kids.  There were kids in my class who said they were going to religion classes and skipped and went skateboarding instead, every Wednesday.

I don't believe that there is any "sucking up" to God.  Being involved in church activities such as teaching bible school or being an elder at church will not make you more favorable to God and does not make you a better person.  I have some neighbors, for instance, who I know think they are very holier than though Christians because they are very involved at a local church where we used to attend.  The husband has actually ran people away from the church by being too overwhelming with teaching the young at church.  He has turned something good into something evil in doing so.  Will he be saved?  Yes.  Is he a better person that me?  No, and I too will be saved.