God is our Helper all the Time

Stuff happens!  I know that many would use another word for stuff.  But this is a Christian broadcast.  Anyway, the ideas that are presented to us in the Bible readings for Pentecost are ideas of success and not failure.  Stuff happens! is about adversity and accepting it.  This is a reasonhable statement reflecting upon the seeming happenstance of life.  But there is something to be said about who causes what to happen.  If I stand on the railroad track and defy the freight train to stop before it hits me, who did what to whom?  It takes a freight train at least one mile to stop.  So it is not the freight train that killed you, it is yourself.  But what about the daily stuff that happens of which  we are sure is not caused by us?  The Bible says that this kind of stuff that happens is for our good.  But why does it seem bad and not good?  It is because we do not see the future the same way that God sees the future.  It is because we have plans for ourselves but God has different plans for us.  It is because we may under-estimate the good that we can accomplish in life but God knows that we can accomplish more than we can even imagine.