Sometimes, coworkers or even family members, when asked if they are doing well, if everything is okay with them, respond: Better than I deserve.

This affirmative sounds strange for us, especially if they are religious, knowing that God is infinite in all His attributes. Therefore, His justice is perfect.

If any of us are better than we deserve, something is wrong with Divine Justice.

Let us consider: we all deserve to be on this planet now, in this moment of transition, in this period of so much turbulence. At the same time, period of so many opportunities.

None of us are here, in these circumstances, by mistake or carelessness of the Divine.

We are on this planet because we deserve to be involved in all the difficulties it offers us, now.

Opportunities to prove our constancy, our perseverance, our willpower to overcome everything. A world of trials. For us to learn.

For us to learn that when we plan a wonderful weekend in the countryside, a huge storm breaks out and we cannot even get there due to the impassable road conditions.

For us to learn that, although we may have control over our lives, it is not unlimited, as a terrible virus arrives unexpectedly, interrupting our wedding, graduation, or birthday party plans.

For us to learn that, to preserve our lives, we need to change habits and develop more strict hygiene rules.

We deserve to be in this world of atonements because we have commitments from the past to resolve, reconnecting with yesterday's enemies or debtors.

Therefore, betrayal, heartbreak, and difficulties find us at certain curves in the road, tormenting our souls.

It's time to return everything to its rightful owners, to suffer the moral damage we once inflicted.

But, above all, we deserve to be on this planet because the Father's mercy is infinite and, in the midst of trials and atonements, offers us a world full of beauty.

A world of natural wonders, where the waters sing symphonies to soothe the soul that cries alone.

A world that awakens us with the birds singing in the most varied tones. And, as we try to decipher each one's song, we rise in praise to the Creator of everything and everyone.

A world that renews itself every day with the dawn, clothed in stars and moonlight under the cloak of night. A world of flowers, perfumes, generous rain, and an extraordinary blue sky adorned with varied colors at dusk.

Yes, we deserve to be on this planet blessed by God.

We deserve to live in this country, blessed by God and naturally beautiful, as a poet and singer described it.

Let us be certain: we deserve to be here, we deserve the opportunities for renewal that this Earth offers us.

We deserve to comfort our souls in beauty, in the beautiful and in the good, while problems punish it and loneliness makes it lament absent loved ones.

God is just. God is good.

We deserve it all: the good, the bad, the kind of. Let us thank God, today, tomorrow, and the day after...