Life’s tribulations may be imposed on hardened spirits or those too ignorant to make a choice knowingly, but they are freely chosen and accepted by repentant spirits who want to repair the evil they committed and to try to do better. So it is that, having performed its task poorly, the spirit asks to start over so as not to lose the benefit of its labor. Therefore, tribulations are at the same time expiations that punish the past and trials for the future, which they prepare. Let us render thanks to God, who, out of divine goodness, grants humans the possibility of reparation and does not irrevocably condemn them for their first wrong.