How to Ensure Every Day is a Success [Start Your Week]

How Do You Ensure Every Day is a Success?

Well, that’s not always easy, especially when bad things happen to you or one of your close friends. At that point you may find yourself not focusing on how to make that day a success, but instead asking yourself, “Why do bad things happen to good people? That’s the title of an outstanding book by Harold S Kushner, a Rabbi who lost his young son to cancer several years ago. This week caused me to reference his thoughts to make sense of a major loss in our community.

This weekend the son of our former head football coach here at BOLD High Schools died of cancer. He was 37 years old. He had beaten the cancer as a teenager and went on to play quarter back for he father, the 8th winningest football coach in Minnesota history. Ironically, the treatment they used to kill the cancer before, was what caused the cancer to return, taking his life and leaving a wife and young kids behind. He was a high school football coach himself at an area school who everyone loved and respected. His name was Trevor Solem. He was a great young man who was dealt a bad hand.

It’s hard to make sense of  those kinds of things that happen to good people. Some people blame God for not stepping in and changing the situation. We all pray for those kinds of miracles.

But according to Kushner, what we need to realize is that God is not responsible for things that happen to us…he does not control your life or my life. He allows choice, he allows things to happen as they do in nature, and it can’t be explained why bad things happen to good people...