By Gonny 
“He doesn’t deserve this.”
We’ve all heard it. Maybe we’ve said it ourselves. A child diagnosed with cancer. A kind person betrayed. A friend facing heartbreak.
And our mind whispers: They didn’t deserve that.
But pause.
If someone doesn’t deserve pain… then who does?
That question pulls us into the second law of chaos, as A Course in Miracles calls it: the belief in sin…..not just as a mistake, but as a reality. A score to be kept. A ledger of right and wrong, deserving and undeserving.
In this belief system, the world becomes a courtroom. Some are innocent. Some are guilty. Some are lucky. Others are punished. And deep down, we fear we might be one of the guilty ones.
According to the Course, sin is not a “thing.” It has no substance. It’s a shadow made real by our belief in separation. And once we believe in sin, we must invent punishment, guilt, and suffering to balance the scales.
This belief infects even our compassion. “He doesn’t deserve this” may sound loving, but it quietly affirms the very lie the ego thrives on: that someone else must deserve it.
That sickness, death, and pain are handed out based on merit, like divine report cards.
But love doesn’t think this way. Love doesn’t weigh, compare, or condemn. Love simply shines.
When we see someone suffering, the highest response isn’t pity or judgment. It’s remembering the truth for them:
“You are still as God created you. Whole. Innocent. Free.”
This remembrance is the miracle.
We don’t have to fix the outer world to heal it. We just have to stop projecting guilt onto it. Healing begins when we refuse to assign meaning to suffering, and instead allow it to be undone by love.
Let this be a message that echoes beyond theology and into every heart:
No one deserves to suffer. Because no one deserves punishment. Because no one has truly sinned.
The world of pain is a dream. And God does not dream of pain.
Let us awaken, not with blame or bitterness, but with the gentle certainty:
Only Love is real.
With love and light,
G.