How could a loving GOD allow Bad things to happen to Good People?

I am often asked “How could a loving God allow Bad things to happen to Good People?”  Here is the shortest way that I can answer that.

In the pre-existence we were Intelligences and then we were spiritually born of Heavenly Father. We had progressed as far as we could as Spirit Children and wanted to progress farther. A Loving Father in Heaven saw this and presented a Plan of Salvation where we could accomplish this. Two thirds of us chose His Plan and came to Earth to receive our bodies and go through Trials by Faith to see if we would continue to choose His plan over and over again regardless of what trials we would have to face. Earth time is very short compared to God’s time so we are only here minutes to Him. The most important part of this plan was our Free Agency. No one could take this away from us…it was a Gift. God has given us EVERYTHING. The only gift we can possibly give Him back is our Agency to choose to be with Him and try to become Like Him.

While we are on Earth, we are all here bumping into the Free Agency of other People, the Free Agency of Nature, the Free Agency of Disease, the Free Agency of all Life… Our job is to continue to choose God in all that we come upon and endure through it all.

Our reaction to these trials are more important than what the trials themselves actually are. We need to eventually develop empathy for others, patience, kindness, and become spiritually great as a true child of Deity should become.

It will be difficult…but it will be worth it. We will be filled with Joy to Return to Heavenly Father to work in His Kingdom and Increase Forever.