Do we pre-arrange everything?

QUESTION: Masters, if a soul must experience duality to fully understand both, then is praying to rid the world of child abuse, murder, etc. futile? I struggle with this concept, as it seems we pre-arrange to be abused, even murdered…. ~Maggie, USA

ANSWER: The purpose of what you call prayer, for those in physical bodies, is to assist them in understanding the lesson they have decided they wanted to experience. Each soul is on a solitary journey. Granted, it is necessary to interact with many other people in order to fulfill your desires, but the lessons are still your own. You cannot lead others’ lives, nor change for them the choices they have made.

The only place that duality exists is here on your planet Earth. In deciding to incarnate into a body here, souls know beforehand that they will learn only by experiencing the negativity that is available here. In freeing the world, if you could, of child abuse, murder, and all the rest, you would be preventing the souls who chose to experience those events from completing their lessons.

Why do you feel you have a responsibility for others? Because societal belief systems say you should? Society wants each person to take care of as many others as possible so that society will not have to take responsibility for so many. No one knows what another soul has decided to experience, so if you interfere with the setting up of a lesson you have prevented growth. That said, you sometimes have a soul contract to help another through a lesson, which allows you a lesson as well, such as being a caregiver.

Praying for—that is, sending the energy of love to—other people to work through and understand the reason for particular circumstances helps them through their lessons. It doesn’t prevent these things from occurring, but it allows souls to get through them faster with better understanding. Send love energy out to all souls—you will speed their journey.