“Everything happens for a reason.”

           

            -Anyone you talk to when going through a hard time.

I must say that I don’t believe this old adage. Well, not entirely.

I believe that there is reason in bits and pieces of everything that happens to a person. When one’s wallet is stolen and for weeks that person searches high and low thinking it was but lost, only to find that it was a close friend absconded with it. What is one’s responsibility in confrontation (with said absconder)? Blow a proverbial gasket?  Offer graceful words of forgiveness? All will deal differently. However, that is beside the point. Who should learn from this, the offender or the offended? And what shall be learned? That all depends on the POV. Much can be learned by both parties. The offended may learn to give grace. The offender may learn not to steal…or at least not to get caught. Then again, there is the possibility that both will learn nothing.

All this to say, though there may not always be a reason for every happening, lessons can be learned if one is willing to have a teachable spirit.