Why do bad things happen to good people?

[Bathsheba]

How strange.... that post (above) isn't registering in New Posts or back in the Spirituality and Religion main forum site. It still says that this thread has only 1 response (from Eugenia). Ooooh maybe it's so subversive that the universe won't allow it to exist???? ROFL

[paradise lost]

Because the world is Just. Bad things happen to EVERYONE. Most of the bad people had the bad things happen early enough on that it shaped who they became.

There's something about humans which makes us say "why me?" when something we don't like happens to us. Why NOT me? What's so special about me that it wouldn't happen to me?

The universe doesn't seem to distinguish. Bad things happen. What you DO with the bad experiences is what matters, not how many you get.

Bx

[Nelle]

It seems so sucky at times hey.

I'm pretty much with Eugenia, that we are given free will - I do believe that God can intervene, and as for why he does some times and not others...I guess that's where I just have faith that God has his reasons ('As for God, his way is perfect, the Word of the Lord is flawless' Psalm 18:30).

And I think one of the reasons we have free will (I'm sure there are many, and the bible does say 'who has known the mind of the Lord' in Romans 11:34 so I could be way off) is because God wants us to love him, but of our own accord - imagine if someone like your partner only loved you because they had to. I don't know if it would mean as much if my husband loved me because he was forced to, if the decision didn't come from him - a bit like when as kids we cleaned our rooms under duress, or we cleaned our rooms of our own accord - I know which one meant more to my mum!

[Inanna]

I actually don't see it as bad or good.

Things happen. Some things are easy for us to accept as they don't challenge us - they are fun and nice and enjoyable. Some things are really tough. But are they bad or good? I don't think they are either.

I believe that experiences are given to us so that we are challenged to grow, to better ourselves - to develop to our highest potential.

I believe that is what this lifetime is for.

I believe we come into this lifetime with a contract to fulfill. We will be given opportunity to develop that potential. Each of us has a different contract - and different wounds that we bring into this life time.

I have had many hardships in life & the older I have got the more comfortable I am with accepting them. Not putting a judgement of good or bad. For there is always yin and yang - light and dark. Always.

I am not saying it's easy. I am not saying it doesn't hurt hideously sometimes. Just that it is what it is. Asking if it "should" be happening is fruitless. It is happening. Accepting it without judging it as a good or bad thing - just as it is -seeking what lesson the situation may be offering.

Sending you loads of hugs - and understanding...