Plan

"You, who have called me from my mother's womb," Galatians 1:15

Some in the spiritual field believe that all that happens is according to a divine plan. If that is true, how does living with dementia fit in to living a planned life. It is not conceivable to me that there would be a divinity which is cruel, nor one which would plan things capriciously. So, if our lives are according to a divinely orchestrated plan, what do we do with this current life? Is it possible that the dementia serves a purpose, and that living with someone with dementia serves a purpose? If so, what could that purpose be? Since we are all dying, dementia is just another form of that. An observable, inching daily toward death. Perhaps that serves the soul's purpose of some people; as does providing care for that person might serve the soul's purpose of another. A long time ago I read of a reportedly true account of a person who had died in a car accident and she was given three choices: she could come back unharmed, she could come back in an invalid state, or she could proceed into death. Only after reviewed the lives of her loved ones and deciding that her coming back in a vegetative state would not serve their higher purpose, did she decide to come back unharmed. What purpose could the dementia serve in your life?