When Bad Things Happen To Good People

Life hits you sometimes.

There are times when you can get up and dust it off relatively easily.

Other times...

You wonder how you're going to make it through.

It is worse when you wonder...

Why?

What did I do to deserve this?

When you look over your life...

And you fully believe that you have been doing well...

Doing good things in the world...

Providing for others...

Helping others...

Living an upright life.

And here's the thing...

Maybe you're right...

Maybe have really have lived an exceptionally good life...

And you do not deserve it.

What do you make of that?

This is a struggle that has faced our imaginations...

And the actual events of our lives...

Since time immemorial.

It makes me think of the story of Job...

A man who was righteous and loses everything...

His children...

His riches...

And his health...

And he did not do anything to deserve any of it.

What did he make of that?

Sitting in what was expected to be his deathbed...

Suffering...

With his wife telling him to curse God so that it could come to an end...

And his friends all accusing him of doing things to deserve this fate...

All while being innocent of it all.

It is something that is really difficult for us to wrap our minds around.

What are we supposed to do with that?

How are we supposed to feel?

Especially when...

We are the ones going through what is not fair?

Life is complicated...

It is difficult...

And bad things do happen to good people.

They say that when it rains it storms...

But for some people...

It becomes a monsoon.

When bad things keep slamming against you...

It can become easy to question what it is all for...

Whether everything we have done up to this point to be good was worth it...

If it ended up leading to...

This.

What makes it even more difficult...

Is that the answers that you normally hear are not satisfying.

It does not matter what tradition you look at...

None of them really makes you feel better...

Especially amidst the struggle.

Have faith that one day it will (hopefully) get better...

Be satisfied knowing that you did the right things...

You will be blessed in an afterlife...

Or the other end of the spectrum...

It does not matter at the end of the day because we will become atoms that never had any form of purpose in the first place...

You just exist, and this is a part of existing.

When you are told things like this...

Even if they are right or you believe them to be true...

It still doesn't feel satisfying inside.

Now, I'm not going to tell you that I have some secret formula for this...

This is not one of those types of things.

There are things in life which are what they are...

This is one of those things.

There is no bright side to it...

There likely is not even a good explanation for it.

Sometimes in life...

There are things that are beyond our comprehension...

Beyond our understanding...

And we have to just wrestle with those things.

Sometimes it happens to us...

Sometimes it happens to those we care about in life.

When it happens...

It is not going to feel fair...

It is going to feel awful...

And I cannot promise that it is suddenly going to get better...

It may suddenly become worse...

Even far worse than you ever imagined possible...

Yet...

There is something about wrestling with it...

That provides a value to us.

So when those dark days come into your life....

Wrestle with it to discover that value...

Move through the struggle.

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