... by learning your lessons.

Your soul covenant is an agreement made with God before your incarnation. It defines what you came to Earth to learn and who you came to serve. The learning piece has two functions. One is to contribute to the evolution of your soul. Given its fallen nature, Earth is a unique classroom environment where you have the opportunity to choose between Light and darkness, good and evil, right and wrong. Few other planets that I know of provide that kind of opportunity. Other lifeforms look at us from a distance with curiosity because darkness is not manifest in their midst. It’s an alien concept to them. Their surroundings are uncontaminated.

In this regard, Earth is one of the more challenging environments in the cosmos. It’s like a tough post-grad school where students have more choices available to them than snowflakes in a blizzard and little to no memory of the clarity of the environment from which they came to give them an advantage. That’s why scriptures describe man as being only a little lower than the angels on the creation scale. Spiritual entities such as angels have a great deal of respect for souls who incarnate to Earth simply because of the difficulties we face.

The second is to make your life somewhat easier by not having to repeat the same mistake twice. When a child burns himself on a hot stove, hopefully he’ll know not to touch it a second time. It’s the old rub that if we don’t learn from history, it will repeat itself. Like the characters in the movie Groundhog Day, you will continue to encounter the same kinds of situations in your life over and over again until you learn the lesson(s) associated with the events. When you learn the lessons, things shift. Circumstances change … or your response to them changes … and you move on to different lessons. You avoid the frustration of metaphorically banging your head against the same issues over and over again.

Your lessons may involve learning patience, relationship skills, vision, forgiveness, healing, alchemy, leadership, teaching, generosity, tolerance, self-control, mercy, love, strength, independence, adaptability, courage, imagination, optimism, trust, resourcefulness, understanding … a combination of these or a host of others.

The key is to figure out what your lesson(s) are based on the themes of the circumstances in your life. Once you identify the lessons, it’s easier to study for them and pass the tests. Once you pass the tests, either the circumstances will change or you will find a different way to think about them … and you can move on.