I hate the phrase, "Everything happens for a reason." Somehow this overused phrase makes people
feel better about the fact that life is hard. But if you really stopped to
think about what it implies, it should make you feel even shittier than you
already did. If everything happens for a reason, if every horrible thing is
divinely ordained so that some good thing can happen, doesn’t that mean the God
we serve is a giant asshole in the sky just messing with your life? Can God make beauty from the ashes?
Absolutely. Can He speak to us in our valleys of despair? Often times He does.
Can Christ bring us peace beyond our pain and understanding? Yes. But that does not mean that the trials we go
through are purposed to bring us beauty, truth, and peace. God is almighty and can bring us out of bad
times in the most wonderful ways, but it does not mean the bad times had to be
ordained to receive the good.
