This world is merely a launching point. To understand the Purpose and Reality of the stew while just looking at the iron pot is impossible. This world is the iron pot. But the feast in preparation is not evident if you just study the iron.
This world is preparing the feast of Love, a purified Love of the highest form. The pot of this physical world boils and mixes the conscious life in a chaotic mix of unpredictable roiling bubbles and steam. It is madness, this world, mad and maddening chaos instituted by the sizzling pot. But out of that cauldron of churning madness is distilled pure Love.
All the generosity and compassion we can muster will never fix the world. But all that generosity and compassion create the pure Love that endures through eternity. The world is never fixed, yet not one whit of selfless Love ever goes to waste.
We experience only the physical structure of the iron pot and the chaos induced at its simmering surface. So we struggle as we should to end the wars and the bigotry and the homelessness. In the process we change and heal lives. But the world still has the wars and the homeless and the suffering and it always will. It always will until this age passes, and it always will provide fertile ground for creating the senseless, irrational Love that is eternal.
And God looked upon it with the deepest of sorrows and said, “It is good, it is very good”.