This thread is great, it's something that I have been wondering about recently. I'm learning about balance and how there is no such thing as good and bad...everything has two sides and it's only when you can accept that, that you will understand that life has perfect balance.

It is hard to believe that everything happens for a reason but here is an example that Dr Demartini gives in the book i'm reading...

"A young man named Martin Bryant shot 35 people in Australia, many of them children. As a direct result of that shooting, Australias national gun laws were changed and hundreds of thousands of weapons were turned in, possibly saving many lives for years to come. The entire country stopped for a moment of prayer that no religion on Earth could have accomplished - turning people's minds to thoughts of immortal spirit and physical mortality. Parents all around that part of the world, when they heard about it, probably held their children close that night and thought, Thank you for being alive. I'm grateful I still have you . The life and the love were conserved."

He lists some other examples as well but this one really made me think...