all for a purpose? in the course of good fortune, we are pleased to be happy and consider that we are enjoying our due. how right and how proper it is to be happy - how good to be blessed, to dance, and to prosper. in the coming of hardship, we are surprised to be hurt, and come to feel angry, abandoned, forgotten. how unfair is our share, and impossible our future - how painful each day, and how long is each night. it's often said that all happens, for some destined purpose, but that seems a curse - an erasing of ourselves. rather we find in our sadness - when attention is given - and quite unexpectedly - a lesson, a value, a gift. no, not all things happen for a purpose - but yes, purpose can be found in all things.