Blaming Ourselves

So often I find myself in places that I never intended to be in. In fact, I may have worked very hard to avoid a situation, and yet, because I do not have free will, I find myself in that very spot. To me, it becomes apparent that somewhere there is a power that decides for us what is best, and the sad thing is, when unpleasant things happen, we tend to think that we screwed up. We’ve been taught to blame ourselves. “Oh, I made a bad choice. I wonder what it was that I did wrong.” And then there are those moments in life when the soul cries out, “But I didn’t do anything wrong. I never intended this. I never did anything to bring this on.” No, but it was planned, so it happened.