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Bad things happen to good people doing good things for the right reasons all the time.  That is simply a fact of life.

We can have squeaky clean habits, never miss a day at work, never forget to dot an "i," inoculate our children and ourselves for all the known diseases, change the oil in our cars right on time, love our mothers, walk our dogs -- and things can still go wrong.

How wrong?  Very wrong, but living with that doesn't mean if I do more, or less, it will change.

Living with it only requires me to accept that life goes on -- until it doesn't.

The only real decision is what do I do with what I've got?

Everyone loves the stories of poor little boys growing up in poverty and abuse and neglect, who turn out to be the pope, or perhaps Mother Teresa!

Those are the exceptions.  Most of us aren't going to do that. We do, though,  have the ability to still find purpose, joy and love in a moment to moment existence.  Ask any child under the age of six and they will tell you about something good, or exciting, or wonderful that happened not too long ago

Children expect less, so perhaps they feel like they get more -- and perhaps they really do.