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No, Everything Does Not Happen for a Reason—Thank God
Everything happens for a reason.
That phrase…
We've all received it personally gift-wrapped by well-meaning friends, caring loved ones, and kind strangers.
It usually comes delivered with the most beautiful of intentions: an intended buffer of hope raised in the face of the unimaginably painful, incomprehensibly ugly things we sometimes experience in this life.
It's a desperate lifeline thrown out to us when all other words fail.
I've never had a tremendous amount of peace with the sentiment. I think it gives the terrible stuff too much power, too much poetry; as if there must be nobility and…
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