We hired a nanny to help us with our daughters while we ran our businesses. The problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s your broken idea of fairness. And if the devil has his way, he’ll tell us that somehow God is out of the picture, and we are in trouble, because the devil’s driving the car, and we don’t know where he’s going. But the Lord replied, “Have you any right to be angry?” –Jonah 4:3-4. You rarely (almost never) marry the love of your life. February 23, 2021 Published in Church Leaders, , Families, Spiritual Life. Just admit that it is. When we see life display its unfairness, here’s what we should do: ADMIT. Don’t they indicate that life is fair, that if you say the right thing and do the right thing the Universe has your back? Sometimes it’s grossly unfair. We never seem to get what we deserve, and we rarely deserve what we get. Oftentimes as we grow older and become parents, we find ourselves repeating the things that our own parents have said to us. She changed our life and all of our plans. That’s what I want to talk about in the time we have left together today. How do we overcome when the path that we are traveling just continues to go from bad to worse? Life’s not fair. Accepting life’s unfairness doesn’t mean we like it. The truth is, life is just playing by different rules. Life’s not fair, it never was, it isn’t now and it won’t ever be. She was our third daughter. In fact on closer inspection it seems that life’s not fair at all. Deep down we know that life is unfair. Life's not fair, but I'm here so don't fear Even though your heart may tear Don't be scared, don't be scared, don't be scared [Verse 2] I don't fear no one, paranoid, go and get my gun (Ayy) Life’s Not Fair. It will help. When the time comes, bad things can happen to anyone! We had a terrifying and beautiful and spectacular surprise baby. Life’s not fair. And if the devil has his way, he’ll tell us that God has somehow left us. You know – those sayings that, as a kid, you promised yourself you would never use when you became a parent. Romantic life is not fair. ACCEPT. What happened to that phrase I grew up with, “What goes around, comes around” or the rather more recent, “Karma’s a bitch”. They actually make sense. Life Is Not Fair - I also saw other things in this life that were not fair. Life is not fair. Sometimes it’s mildly unfair. She was born with a smile, and that smile rarely leaves her face. Life’s not easy; I’ll go further: it’s not fair. So, what do we do when the cards that life seems to continue to play us just don’t seem fair? Now, O Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live. It just isn’t. Unless you’re winning, most of life will seem hideously unfair to you. Someone else gets the girl (or guy) of your dreams. The real rules are there. Life Is Not Fair (and Neither Is God) June 4, 2010 by Wayne Stocks. 258k shares Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. 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