Let’s Be Fair?

My Musings – “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” –Oscar Wilde. “It’s not fair” is something I heard a lot from my son Joel when he was growing up. About things that seemed important then, but pretty minor when compared to the things encountered as an adult.

God, more often than not, is blamed for the things we believe are unfair, because we cannot comprehend why a just God would allow injustice in His creation. “If God is so just, how can He allow _______________.” You fill in the blank. We conveniently forget that God’s creation, in its original state and intent was “very good.” What is not good, what we perceive as being unfair, is the result of mankind’s failings.

Another quote, from an unknown source is “life is unfair, then you die.” That…