To reincarnate is to be reborn several times in different experiences; situations.
Taken from ‘Playing and Learning Spiritism’ (Brincando e Aprendendo Espiritismo,
Jesus told us that God is our Father. This Father is infinitely good, wise and just.
And how could we believe in his goodness and justice without accepting reincarnation?
It’s enough just to look around us to find very different situations:
Would God be fair if human beings only had a single chance in this life? What if in this life one person was born poor, sick and had no opportunities to study? Would there be justice? Certainly not!
But once we accept reincarnation, things change. These seemingly unfortunate situations can be easily understood and accepted.
We are immortal spirits and are destined to evolution, perfection.
We live alongside other spirits in these several existences we go through. We make friends and/or enemies, due to our successes and/or mistakes.
Every unfortunate act generates a consequence: this is the law of Cause and Effect.
God, in His great goodness and justice, gives man the opportunity to learn and to correct his mistakes through reincarnation.
Imagine if a man who commits suicide at the age of 80 could no longer reincarnate.
That's why many spirits, feeling sorry for harming his neighbour and himself, ask the superior Spirits for the opportunity to reincarnate in the same family members alongside with the people they hurt in past lives. They can correct their actions by living closely to one another.
That’s why we must have great affection, love, patience and tolerance with relatives whose coexistence is difficult. We don’t know the reason that leads them to act in a wrong way. We need to forgive them and guide them to the path of righteousness with our good examples.
Sometimes this difficult relative is our father, our mother, our brother or sister.
It’s within our home that we need to develop tolerance because all of us are now where we need to be. We are dealing with the people that we need for our evolution. We were the ones who asked to live alongside them, in most cases.
It’s only through love and forgiveness that we can overcome our imperfections; our unfortunate acts.
Let’s strive to understand and help the father who drinks, the mother who beats us for no reason, as well as brother/sister who want to harm us because he/she hasn’t understood that it’s easier to share.
It’s through forgiveness, love, patience and understanding that we can all improve. We can sow goodness and achieve happiness to live in peace.
vol. 4, cap. 4 - Justiça e Reencarnação - Família)