This question comes to me at times: “If we are the children of a God who is all loving, why should we go through negative circumstances?”. “If he loves us unconditionally, why do we need to go through any ‘sad’ thing?”
As I was thinking about it once, it came to me that our father wants to meet us and shower his affection on us. But when somehow he is not able to do this, probably because of our thoughts that block his grace and love to reach us, he grows sad. This sadness of the soul is then reflected gradually in the cosmos i.e. in the circumstances around us.
The sad circumstances that we see around, then, is just a reflection of the sadness of the soul or the divine. It also means that trying to change the cosmos or the physical reality won’t help as it is only a reflection of the state of the soul.
As I was thinking this way, I remembered the quote: “All your attempts to reach me, are in reality my attempts to reach you.” Somehow, when these attempts of the divine are not very successful, there is a sadness in the cosmos.