A Reason for Everything
I’ve just received a forwarded message from my friend, Pia, entitled
"Let Happiness Flow." One of the things written there that struck me was the line that says that once you believe that all things happen for a reason, we no longer become "controlled by daily events and situations in our lives." Because of that belief, "life becomes less of a struggle." It is when we see the events happening in our lives as God’s designs that we will be able to face the world with a more positive outlook.
My Monday morning didn’t turn out so well after knowing that the condo unit my hubby and I were interested in renting two months from now, received an offer of purchase from another buyer. Fortunately for the condo’s owner, her mortgage problems will now be solved. Unfortunately for me and my husband, we would have to search for prospective units once more. Now, did that piece of news destroy my whole day? Not at all. Surely, it was disappointing to learn that the unit we found to be so cute in size (just perfect for me and my hubby) will not belong to us anymore. But then, after I talked to my future-and-now-ex landlady, I immediately told myself that the unit wasn’t meant to be our home. When i called Johnny about the news, he was only sad for a few minutes but easily recovered after thinking the same way I did. When we saw each other in the afternoon when he got back from work, we just teased each other non-stop about who between us was more affected with the loss of the unit. In the end, we just laughed about it then planned again when to do our next house-hunting.
Situations like the aforementioned happen once in a while. We get bogged down by disappointments, by pressures, by failures, by difficult undertakings. Yet if we do not allow this temporary downside to to distract us from our goals, then we can move head on to the rightful path we choose for ourselves. We must remember that some of us have better appreciation of the good things in life now because they have experienced the not-so-good stuff in the past yet they used their learnings from these events to improve themselves. And only if you see things happening for a reason that you can easily move forward. Lingering in having bad thoughts and feelings will only double your pain and will only hold you back further.
Such is life. We cannot get everything we want. Things sometimes turn out differently from what we expect, yet if we keep a distance from what unfolds and just think that something better will come, then we are letting hope reign in our hearts. Doesn’t that give us a good feeling everyday?
