I am once again in the waiting area of my Honda dealer, getting an oil change. I really do love that I am able to take care of so many different things while they work on my car.
I've been thinking about something I read recently. The statement was "Life is Fair." Would you agree or disagree with this?
Personally, I would agree. I do believe that life is fair. Some of us succeed in areas that others may not, and vice versa. Some of us are able to obtain or achieve certain things,and others will obtain different things that we will never attain. One thing that I have said pretty often, which can be grouped in with the Life is Fair concept is, "There are all different kinds of lives." Another one of my favorite things to say to people is, "I have never wanted anyone else's life because the only thing I know for sure is what I have. I have no idea what other people are actually dealing with behind their own closed doors." And that's despite what show they may be putting on for the world.
Now, I know that some people would immediately go to examples of homeless people or the chronically ill and challenge me. They might feel that life is, in fact, not fair.
Your thoughts? My opinion is only one of many, I am certain.
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I am definitely one of the people you mentioned who jumps right to chronic illness to argue that life, in fact, is not fair. Why do GOOD and giving people and their families have to suffer every day. It doesn't make any sense to me. I can not wrap my brain around.
Your brother-in-law crossed my mind when I wrote this post. It is very difficult to try to understand suffering.
Catholics spend a lot of time contemplating that, more so than other faiths, I think.
There are a couple of books that I often see mentioned about the subject. Please see "Making Sense Out of Suffering" by Peter Kreeft and "The Problem of Pain" by C. S. Lewis.
I know it's easy for me to say in this particular case, but I do believe that God finds a way to always bring good out of tragedy and pain. I'm not asking you to post your answers here, but can you think of ways that your family has grown stronger as a result of what Joey deals with? Any of veiled blessings that can be identified as coming out of this?
Still praying for Joey all the time--the rest of the family too.
God is the author of life and He is just and fair.
Hey... I have a mix on this one. Life here on earth I say is not always fair but I wont go as far as saying that is due to God not being fair. Yeah I have to say that, no it wasnt fair that my mom died just moths ago or fair that my dad died when I was nine. But it was fair that I had the best parents for who I am and that is fair that they made me grow up strong so I could deal with fair and not fair things. People do things that are not fair at times for sure but that is people who do the unfair. Part of that fun and great free will that we all have.
Sometimes when we don't like how something plays out we say, it wasnt fair, and yeah it may not have been a fair thing but was that in our control to change how it came out to be... Do you get what I mean?
So, yeah I must say that life is fair and not fair at times.
Good to see you back here Jim. I missed you.
I do know what you mean when people sometimes claim that "life" is not fair or "God" is not fair, but they are not doing the things that they need to to do (or, sometimes, more importantly avoiding the things they need to).
We can't just sit on the couch and expect life to be a bed of roses, believe me, I've tried!
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