Everything Happens For A Reason (and other nonsense)

I've heard it said many times. "Everything happens for a reason." "There are no coincedences."

It's often said with the idea that a higher power had a had behind making it happen. I have to really wonder about that.

I think that things happen then you take from it what you can. You can sometimes make your own reason. But not always.

The idea that things happen for a reason means that children are abused for a reason, people are murdered for a reason, horrible things happen for a reason.

I don't buy it.

It also means, then, that everything is predestined. Everything is guided by the "hand of God." (and not just Diego Mardona's goals). I believe in God, but I believe in a free-will God. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm wrong quite often in my life.

But, I don't buy the fact that "Things Happen For a Reason."