Remember the way things used to be? When we were little children and everything took care of it's self, or so we thought. When the smallest things seemed like our world and when they fell apart so did we. When we loved the people that we loved with a real passionate love. When if we didn't like something we forgot it or left it behind us. Where it didn't matter what religion you were or what church you went to, or if you even went at all. When we looked at the world with wonder and amazment, and yet still thought nothing of it. When we dreamed we could be anything we ever wanted and truly believed that. When believing in something wasn't as hard and when you just trusted people from a inside feeling. Remember when life meant so much and you cried when your dog got ran over or your cat got carried off by some creature? 
  If only we could live this life with that kind of passion about things and value each other's life as much as we did then, but at the same time not worry about what tomorrow might bring. Unfortunately, we can't really live life as a dream and be in our own little world as we were then. We must grow up mentally and morally as our bodies grow physically. In order for us to grow propperly we must have struggles and problems that we have to over come. Just as a soldier trains for battle and is faced with symulated problems of the real thing, we are face with daily trials to give us the "training" we need to succeed at this life and survive everything that this life throws at us.
  "Everything happens for a reason, nothing is left to chance." We all have heard this statement at least once, most of us have heard it over and over, and some of us actually believe it. As long as we believe that God is in control of our lives and that He know what's going to happen before it does, then this statement is conpletely true. If it is true, then everything that happens is there to give more "training" to build our character and give us more "tools" in our "toolbox".