Why do Bad Things Happen to Good People?

   There are many reasons for adversity in life, and I'm sure we don't know all of them since God's ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9).  Difficulties in life may be there to remind us to look to God. Many trials in our life are to help us recognize the good in our lives - Like how the spring seams so much better since it is just after the dead cold winter - or how health is so much more pleasing after having been sick for weeks.  He may allow us to endure difficult times in order for us to realize our dependence on Him.  Maybe He is putting us through a Refiner's Fire, so we can work out our impurities. Or perhaps it is just because we all have the power to make choices, and sometimes we are affected adversely by other people's, and our own, choices (Scripture helps).  Those are a few ideas to answer the question of why bad things still happen to good people, but the most important thing to remember is to trust God.  Know that He sees the big picture and knows what's best for us better than we do, because He knows what's coming.

  All we can do is trust in God that we can make it!  That he will always provide us a way to endure, and succeed (1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Nephi 3:7), and when we have done all we can do, and there is more needed, that he will make up the difference.