When self-serve is full service.

The one abiding principle that equivocates and mitigates the need for retardation, incarceration or even abortion, is that everything serves.

The parents of the retarded child were chosen to deal with that situation. The period spent unjustly accused and imprisoned (whether karmic or not...depends on the nature of the prison...) or the guilt/shame of the abortionist or the women so affected, these are the price that the spirit is willing to pay to get the conditioning that is required to fix the mechanism and make it fully functional. When the spirit uses our energies to work with time, its judicial use and how we deal with this, in the egoic sense, is more a matter of effectiveness than scheduling.

Putting dirt on a wound seems dangerous but a mud plaster can be used with beneficial effects. The duality of our existence is simply an expression of the orientation and the perception of those involved. Good and bad, wise and foolish, they are all manifestations of different aspects as we interpret them based on our intent and our point of view.

Knowing that we are working to a plan and that the plan is an expression of how we make our way to an eventuality that suits our purpose is, in and of itself, the only reassurance that we need to have. Pairing that with the knowledge that is available, ensures that we comply with the requirement to the best of our ability and is the key to making it through this life (and any and all other lives that are necessary) and moving on to the next level.