Sometimes hard things happen, no matter how much one prepares against them and this was just life as lessons, life as school, life as evolution. She felt herself changing, inside, with every joy that filled her heart to almost bursting and with every sadness that could have easily spiraled down to depression. She felt her thoughts shifting to a bigger picture than the one her eyes saw or her senses reported. She suddenly, then and there, knew that this was one big schoolroom, a proving ground of faith and courage, the very way we grow back to God, from Whom all life comes. She learned things are never as they appear.
Life is like an apple, one way on the outside and another, quite different, on the inside.
She found that sometimes the questions were wrong and led her to disallow the answers all around her. She knew, also, that the day she stopped asking questions would be her last night on earth. The only way things were understandable to her was to see the bigger picture and to take the lessons as they appeared, lessons, which, if done well and fully, gave great yield to the day. She stopped asking why and began wondering about greater purposes. She had found the meaning to life and its perspective opened her eyes even wider.