A viewer asks: “I was playing paddle this morning. I forgot to say my prayers but try to every morning. Paddle is very intense because the ball is very hard. I always am concerned about being hit in the face and typically pray for protection when playing. The ball was driven to me this morning and ricocheted off my paddle into my right eye. Fortunately my eye is ok. Just a black eye. I thought later how much worse it could have been and wondered if I was being protected despite the injury. Just curious. Maybe it was just luck. Maybe something else.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This was not in any way sinister, but an example of the known hazard you accept in playing this game, being aware as you are that mishaps can take place. In a sense, you are playing hardball and must accept the possibility of an injury. This can happen despite attempts to have divine protection save you. If you think about this, it is not that helping you avoid a simple injury from a recreational pursuit is too hard for the divine to carry out. The issue is more of, where is the dividing line between personal responsibility and appropriateness of having a divine save to permit personal recklessness? We can tell you that the latter is the energetic equation behind what took place. There, in fact, was a divine save you enjoyed. The injury might have been much worse. We were able to diminish the impact enough to prevent direct injury to the eyeball, but not the pain and shock of being struck. For the latter to happen was necessary, in recognition of your choice to take your chances and put yourself at risk with something nonessential and for which you could take effective precautions to avoid, for example, by wearing goggles or a face shield. So the take-home message here is not for this to question your faith or doubt our willingness to be there for you, but to realize there is always a complex interplay of energy in everything that happens and that no one's reach is unlimited. The key is striking the right balance by applying wisdom and weighing potential hazards and consequences in what you do.