Readers, I hope you all take the following to heart. I love when inspiration like this comes from my soul and I can then share it with you all.
Enjoy!

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So I'm sitting here talking to my best friend Teresa. And we're talking about how things in life happen. Just happen. Why they happen, why we get things we don't understand why we have, why we want certain things and don't get it, why we get things and then, thinking it's the best, we lose em.

why is that?

I tend, when bad things happen, to take it with a grain of salt. Life happens, la la la, move on. When multiple bad things happen, however, overwhelming feelings take over.

So I got to pondering, right? No matter how bad a situation, no matter how black that shadow is, there is always a light casting it. The darker the shadow, the brighter the light. Therefore, good things do come out of bad situations.

It goes the opposite as well. The brighter the light, the darker the shadow. But at least one has to hold to the fact - the fact, mind you - that, light or dark, there is always that cycle. If you're in a dark moment of time, light is on its way. And vice versa.

Hard to believe in that when you're in the middle of everything going wrong at once, but in every person, that moment of clarity comes that allows you to see that fact as it is, grab it, and hold tight with all you have.

Somehow, you know that everything IS going to be just fine.

How about the idea of wondering why things don't happen at certain times. You know, we all have these moments: something happens, good or bad, and we wonder ultimately, 'I wish this happened two months ago' or 'why didn't this happen next month when I'd be more prepared?'

I think my favorite quote comes from the most unlikely of movies; the Lord of the Rings, first one. Frodo jumps into Gandalf's cart and states to him in no unnecessary terms, "You're late." Gandalf then proceeds to tell him, "A wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he's meant to."

Taking that in a different viewpoint, one comes to associate it with lifes little 'why didn't this happen before/later?' dilemna. If one rephrases it to say, "Everything in life happens when it's meant to. It never happens too soon or too late," you begin to see certain 'a-ha!' moments in your past.

A good example just happened to my friend Jami. She is in nursing and was doing okay. She happened to fail her exams and couldn't move on with her classmates. She was all depressed wondering why it happened to her. I told her to look at it this way. In the future when she does graduate, she just may find that top job that she maybe wouldn't have gotten if she graduated on time and was working elsewhere.

See? Things happen when they're meant to for reasons. Though it may not seem like anything good is coming out of a bad situation at the moment, you don't know what domino effect it has already started in motion.

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