Good People?
I can’t answer that for you. But today I will share with you some of the things that I cling to when I struggle with that question, or when I am struggling through my own trials.
Over the whole of my life, even up to this point in time, I have been on my knees over and over again wishing I didn’t have the struggles that life heaped upon my plate. I have now made it through enough of them to know that there is always riches waiting on the other side. Some days I like to believe it is because a benevolent force intended my struggles for a greater good, and some days I feel that it is my nature to apply a greater good to my struggles –what you seek you will find. So I work to not curse my struggles, but to pull myself far away from them emotionally and begin the work of seeing the greater good and purpose that can be mined from the experience.
That doesn’t mean my mind and emotions won’t fall into despair and self-pity. It does. And when my mind enters that chaos of sorting out the feelings of hopelessness, fear, and despair, these are the sentiments that my mind travels to again and again to pull me through the darkness and frustration.
Every person and every situation is complicated beyond easy comprehension. Stop wishing away what is and don’t make snap judgements of all the players in the game. My real job to decide how to conduct myself with what I have in front of me in this moment.
“Life is a much larger journey than you; and your particular struggles are not what this world is wrapped around…not all pain is suffering…there is a greater tapestry to your life….” How I interpret what she’s expressing is: events you are going through now helps to lay down the groundwork experience for skills that will be required of you in the future.
The most vitally productive question you must ask is; How are you going to use your free will in that horrific moment?
And to the question of ‘why bad things happen to good people?’.
Why not?
To borrow a bit from Caroline Myss and spin it this way: the Universe is not logical…
Or, as in Marcus says in Babylon 5: “Wouldn’t it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?”
Your struggles are your struggles, I can’t take those away, no one can, but we can help each other by lightening the burden. I hope I gave you something today that will lighten your burdens in life.
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