A viewer asks: “We know that this world is not fully under God’s control and much more so under the control of “the gods” and whatever we can do to enlist God’s help, but what really happened in yesterday’s Olympic gold medal hockey game, where the Canadians kept getting perfect scoring chances on open nets and almost none of them went in…?” What can Creator tell us?

This was not the outcome of a conspiracy on the part of a sinister power to advance a geopolitical agenda but was a combination of the individual wherewithal of the players, as is the point of such contests, to test the mettle and ability to perform at the most advanced and highest level such a contest can take place—the Olympics. People are variable in their capabilities, from moment to moment even, with a flow and flux of emotions, the workings of the mind, the reflexes, cellular memory with the overlay of past history, psychological makeup, and karmic influences ever hovering and adding to the mix. The role of karma is as important as anything else because it will create a kind of backdrop that determines how a person holds up under the stress in response to the pressure high-level contests like this represent. We have said before that, given the wide array of variables in the makeup, athletic contests make little sense in actuality. Who wins and who loses is more a function of inherent soul differences and expression of soul attributes preconfigured for a particular lifetime. As such, what people do with their native talent, for lack of a better all-encompassing term, will be a factor—how badly they want to win, how much effort they put into training and preparation, and learning self-discipline and self-control, and so on—but those will not be the major factors. There are countless examples of people ending up with medals, or not, for small influences at the last minute that caused an error on their part to lose the contest. So the distinction of being a medal winner versus an also-ran is not necessarily representative, even of the aggregate average merit and ability of the contestants in many cases, but more a question of what happened surrounding a particular event that added extra difficulty or restriction on performance from local circumstances and fleeting influences that had an inordinate impact on the outcome. As such, what boils down to the true value of such things as the Olympics is, on average, comparing apples and oranges. Some people are born with the wherewithal to emerge victorious in such settings and some are not. So when things work out accordingly, based on inherent wherewithal, it is a fait accompli, not a mark of distinction to be victorious because the victors were, in effect, handed the capability at the outset. If they end up losers and someone with lesser wherewithal becomes a victor by virtue of sheer hard work or the good fortune of life circumstances allowing them a smoother path, it does not prove, in being a victor, they are the better athlete.