Can the worst thing that ever happens to you actually become the best thing that ever happens to you? Every adversity has within it the seed of an equal or better reward. The same bad things happen to all of us - we fall out of trees and break our leg, we get robbed, we get sick, we lose people and things that we think are irreplaceable. Does this mean that life is terrible . . . that we need to be strong and fight everything and everyone in order to survive? A long time ago Albert Einstein, one of the greatest thinkers of all time, asked the rhetorical question, 'Is this a friendly universe?' His answer was that if you think it is, it will be, and if you are convinced that everyone and everything in the universe is meant to do you harm, it will. A long time ago my biggest sister Viv was a struggling widow with two young children. She attended a good church Sunday morning, Sunday evening and Wednesday evening every week. She was so poor at the time that many of their meals consisted of a couple of fried eggs, and nothing more. One day recently we were talking about it, and I mentioned that I was surprised that none of the good church people during those days took the time to notice her situation and lend a helping hand. Of course, if you go to a church regularly, I'm betting that there is someone in your church that could mightily use something that you have plenty of . . . but have you ever taken the time to watch, listen and be sensitive to the other folk around you? And it isn't only in church . . . there are people that enter our personal universe every day that desperately need things that we have plenty of.