Part Eight

Let me suggest that the bad things that happen to us in our lives DO NOT have a meaning when they happen to us.
They do not happen for any good reason which we would accept them willingly.But we can give them a meaning.We can redeem these tragedies from senselessness by imposing meaning on them.The question we should be asking is not Why did this happen to me? Or what did i do to deserve this?
That is really an unanswerable,pointless question.A better question would be,NOW that this has happened to me, What am i going to do about it!

Part seven

God does not cause our misfortunes,Some are caused by bad luck,by bad people,and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal,living in a world of inflexible natural laws.
The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior,nor are they in anyway part of some grand design on God's part.Because the tragedy is NOT Gods Will.We need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes.
We can turn to him for help in over coming it., precisely because we can tell ourselves that God is as outraged by it as we are.

Part six

They discover that they have more strength,more courage than they ever knew themselves to have.Where did they get it ,I would like to think it came from prayers,Thier prayers helped them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage which were not available to them before.
I believe God does not send us the problem,He gives us the strength to cope with the problem.I believe God gives us strength and patience and Hope, revewing our spiritual resoures when they run dry.We need only turn to Him admit that we can't do this on our own.