A reason for everything?

Sometimes I wonder how I can honestly tell people that I believe there is a reason for everything that happens in our our lives, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any answers for some of the bad things that occur. I know when something considered good happens it’s easy to claim there was a reason for it, but what about when some random tragedy happens to someone that doesn’t seem to have any meaning to it at all?  I have personally experienced things in my own life that seemed bad at the time, and was not only able to find meaning to it, but grow personally and spiritually from it as well. However, I never experienced some of the tragic events that others have. I already covered this in my post about gratefulness, but with what has been seeming like more and more tragic events taking place in the world around us, I can understand it if people begin to question whether or not there’s a God.  I guess all I can do to help others believe in something is to keep doing what I’ve been doing for myself over the last thirteen years now, which is to continue to look at the many good things that happen in my life and others, and believe as hard as I can that there is indeed a reason for everything that happens both good and bad. Although I know I don’t have all the answers to why some us go through the things we do, my life has shown me there is much more to this world than meets the eye. It is because of this that I can’t help but believe in a creator I call God, that will explain to me what life is about after I die, and I pray to it in the shower.