Not why, but why not!

A friend posted this as her status:

"does anyone else out there ever just sit back and think about how life works....why some people have to deal with more hard times then others....why there are rich and poor....why we as people have to deal with emotions...."

Here was my response:

"I will never wonder why. I know that this is all part of a plan bigger than I will ever know. I know that everything that I do or say in life has been pre-planned by my Heavenly Father before I was even given this life to life. The bad in my life was there the make me strong now. The hurt has taught me that I am alive. And the joy is to remind me who I am and why I am here."

I didn't fully believe this a few years ago. I was totally the same as her, always wondering "why me?" or "why not me?". It wasn't until I was forced to deal with a very tragic event a few years ago that I saw the "why" in my life. I knew why it was happening and knew that it was to happen at that time for that reason. It took a few years to look back and see it, but I am now there.

Yes, we are struggling right now- but no one put us here but us. It was our life choices, not anyone else's.

And that's all I have to say about that.