There are ALWAYS Answers

In talking with many co-workers, clients, family and friends in and around the holidays I learned of failed business plans, chronic illnesses, personal problems, financial woes, and enough troubles I think even I could write a book of Lamentations.

But you know what I have discovered in life? There are always answers. I don't want to say I have the cure for cancer or can solve world hunger, but many situations as we turn the bend into a new year do have answers. The search may not be easy, the solution easy to swallow or without some cost, but I contend there are answers.

The root of my belief in this idea I think stems from two elements of my background. One is an Engineering and Math upbringing which always made me rely on that I could always somehow determine in the end that 2+2 would somehow end up as 4. I know in reality the world is gray and it would be nice if life were AS simple as math sometimes.

The other part of my background I rely on is my strong faith in God which I can only claim as a gift I have been given. Some struggle so much in this area and for me it is a constant like a lighthouse on a stormy cliff that never burns out.

There are many questions that we all have.

You don't have to look around too far in life to see all sorts of problems and wonder why they are there or how to fix a given situation.

I think too many people give up on trying to solve problems. I am a natural problem solver and it has served me well in my many endeavors in life. Sometimes you have to first laugh at the problem before you get around to focusing on a solution for it.

And what about all the mysteries of the universe about why life is unfair, or why did a child have to die, or why did this horrible tragedy have to happen? That's where the second part of my background comes into play. If you try with all your might to muster other resources like family, friends, and professionals to see you through to an answer and you still don't know why or what to do, what should you do? Remember, I said there are ALWAYS answers. That's where you rely on your faith in God. And if you don't have that then rely on someone else's faith in God that there really is an answer. Knowing that there is an answer gives you the ability to come to peace with some of the cards we are dealt in life. At least it does for me and makes the universe a lot more orderly as well. So for the new year, believe you always have answers to situations you find yourself in. I wish you well.