Hello, Everyone. This is Chaplain Sung Kim. I am Deputy CMD CH in the 63d Readiness Division. I pray you are well.
How are you feeling today? What do you do when nothing is going your way? Do you ask, "Why me?" or do you look for what your life is trying to tell you? How you choose to respond to the difficult things that happen to you can mean the difference between a life of anger…or joy.
Gary Zukav says that everything happens for a reason. Find out what you can do when life takes a turn that just doesn't seem fair.
You become angry at life because things are not easy and good. When there is an unmet need or unfulfilled desire in your life, you may become upset and angry at life. Your house is falling down and you see someone on TV getting a brand new home with all the furnishings, and you think, “Why couldn’t that be me?” Someone wins a lot of money on a game show and you are hurting financially so you lash out. You don’t have someone in your life, or your marriage is disintegrating, and all the couples you see in church look so happy together. You ask yourself why God hasn’t given you someone? You have serious physical issues and you wonder why other people don’t seem to have the problems you do. You may even be surprised that you feel angry at people who have it better than you at times. You may be mad at God because life hasn’t treated you better.
Life is sometimes unfair. We experience loss, pain and injury. Sometimes terrible things happen to us through no fault of our own. We want someone or something to blame.
Thinking of life as unfair is only one perception, and it is not necessarily the way your life is. Realize that while you cannot control the things that happen to you, you can control how you react to them.
Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles you would have never realized your potential, strength, willpower, or heart.
Here is a story of Michael Jordan. M.J Always wanted to be a basketball player but he was expelled from his basketball high school team. M.J refused to accept defeat and he decided to keep going until he became the Michael Jordan we know today!
He said, "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by chance or by means of luck. Consider the possibility that everything that happens to you is an opportunity to expand into a fuller potential, and a more powerful and meaningful life.
Ecclesiastes 9:11 says, “I also saw other things in this life that were not fair. The fastest runner does not always win the race; the strongest soldier does not always win the battle; wise people don’t always get the food; smart people don’t always get the wealth; educated people don’t always get the praise they deserve. When the time comes, bad things can happen to anyone!”
Have a blessed day! Blood and Fire!
Here is the direct email and phone number for anyone requesting support from the 63d RD Chaplain office,
usarmy.usarc.63-rsc.list.chaplain-all-users@mail.mil
650-526-9668