Whatever happens, happens for a reason.
Spirituality at its best is a combination of gratitude and humor. The important thing is not to deny tragedy, but to embrace it as an essential part of the life we love and for which we should be so grateful.
In a study some years ago, Boston psychologist Shula Sommers found that American men, in particular, found gratitude to be the most discomforting and humiliating emotion, worse than fear. It is not hard to understand why. Gratitude recognizes the fact that we are not, in fact, the authors of our own destiny, that we owe our good fortune to others and, perhaps to luck. Fate further complicates this picture by suggesting that we are not only lucky in our lives but serving some greater necessity, God or no God.
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