Infinite Life: why do bad things happen to good people?

I believe that we have the opportunity to have an infinite life. Recently I had an experience where someone I know was questioning why do bad things happen to good people. Here is the real simple and, frankly, only answer.

Because they are alive!

That’s right. Bad things happen to good people because they are alive. God is not punishing them, the cosmos does not hate them, they haven’t done anything wrong, well maybe, they are simply alive.

If you are alive, you can expect bad things to happen. It makes me so angry to here people say that if you just follow this or that religion, nothing will ever happen to you, or if you follow the law of attraction well enough you will never attract bad stuff into your life. Pardon my crassness, but bullshit!

If you are alive, no matter if you are a good person or a bad person, bad stuff will happen; hardships will happen.\

You mean there’s no way out?

That’s right! As long as you are drawing breath, you run the risk of having something bad happen to you. Now that does not mean there is nothing we can do about it.

Step one: Have faith.

Have faith that God, the Universe, the Infinite Source, whatever it is you believe in will help you get through whatever it is you are going through. I said before that re3ligion will not stop bad stuff from happening in your life, and it won’t, but it will help in dealing with it! There have been many studies that show that people with religious faith of some sort deal with hardship better than those who do not.

Step two: Think positive.

I don’t meant the kind of thinking that denies that anything is wrong. This will only lead to frustration and the mind tries to justify what is happening with what you are telling it. Some people seem to say that you should never admit that you are having hardship, but I disagree.

Admit it, and then move on. The type of positive thinking that I am talking about is where you look at whatever situation you are in and then begin to look for positive ways to deal with whatever it is. How can you turn this situation around? How can you think about it so that it does not crush or control your life? What can you learn from it?

Step three: Action

Now that you have thought about your situation and have come up with some positive steps, it is time to put them into action. Don’t sit around waiting for someone else to do it for you. Don’t sit around waiting for the Universe to do it for you either. There is an old saying about how God made a lot of marble, but he never made a statue.

As you begin to take action, you may well notice that the Infinite seems to be lending a hand, but if you do nothing, you may have a very long wait. I am not saying that God does not move or that God does not change things. What I am saying is that God usually expects us to do something as well.

Why do bad things happen to good people? They happen because they are alive. What they do with those bad things is usually in measure with who and what they are. What about you? What do you do when bad things come into your life?

Here’s to You!

P.S. Here is a book that has long been thought to be a great piece on this same subject. When Bad Things Happen to Good People