It’s All for Good — What If Life Really Is Always Happening for Us?
- Alan Lowis
- Nov 2, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Nov 12, 2025
By Alan Lowis
Life rarely goes according to our plan.
We lose some things we thought we needed.
Some doors close just as we were ready to walk through them.
Some people we want to be close to seem to drift away.
Opportunities seem to vanish.
Plans seem to crumble.
Pain happens. Problems happen.
It can feel like we’re losing — like the world is working against us, like everything is coming undone. It can look like chaos, loss, and disappointment.
But what if it isn’t?
What if all of it — even the setbacks, the heartbreaks, the delays — was actually for good, even when we can’t see it yet?
What if life isn’t breaking us down, but setting us up — for something more powerful, more beautiful, and more aligned than we could ever imagine?
“What If (It’s All for Good)” was written from that question — from the quiet unwavering faith that everything is happening for us, not to us.
I truly believe our worst days often become our best days — not because they’re painless, but because of what they teach us, because of what they ultimately give to us. They build resilience, humility, compassion, and wisdom. They strengthen the heart and deepen the soul.
As Rumi wrote:
“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
Often, what feels like loss is simply life making space for something greater to blossom.
It reminds me of a scene from the movie Evan Almighty, when Morgan Freeman — playing God disguised as a waiter — sits with a woman overwhelmed by the problems in her life. She begins to tell him her story, filled with doubt and pain. He listens quietly, then says with a kind smile:
“Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does He give them the opportunity to be patient? If they pray for courage, does God give them courage, or does He give them opportunities to be courageous? If someone prays for their family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm, fuzzy feelings? Or does He give them opportunities to love each other?”
Then he smiles again and says, “Well, I gotta run — lot of people to serve. Enjoy.”
That moment captures a beautiful truth: life rarely gives us what we want, how and when we want it. But life always rises to meet our needs.
Delays are not denial — they’re often direction.
Pauses are often preparation.
And every challenge, every pain, every detour, every delay is shaping us for and moving us towards something greater.
But what if we didn’t have to wait to see the gift?
What if we learned to believe it was already there — hidden within every challenge, even when it hurts?
What if we could have faith that the blessing exists even before we can see it?
And what if, with time and practice, we got better and better at finding it — sooner and sooner? Until one day... we find ourselves feeling grateful for everything life brings.
Because when we choose faith over fear, and trust over resistance, everything changes.
Gratitude grows where bitterness once lived.
Peace takes root where frustration once thrived.
And life begins to feel like the miracle it’s always been.
Because it’s all for good.
It’s all for love.
It’s all a gift.
From up above.
It's all for love.
May this song remind you — in your hardest moments and your brightest ones — that something good is always unfolding, even when we can’t see it yet.
May it give you faith when things don’t make sense, and strength to trust that life is always guiding you toward what will serve your growth, your love, and your highest good.
Share the Light
If these words or this song touched your heart, share them with someone who might need hope today.
Sometimes a single reminder — that life is still working for us, even in the hardest moments — can help someone find their strength again.
And yet… compassion must always come first. The word compassion means “to suffer with.”
When someone we care about is in deep pain, fear, or crisis, they may not yet be able to see any meaning in it — and that’s okay.
The time to teach someone to swim is either before they go swimming, or after they’ve been brought safely to shore, but not while they’re drowning.
Likewise, the time to help someone look for the good isn’t while they’re currently lost in crisis — it’s when they’ve had a chance to breathe, to center, and to feel safe again.
In the depth of crisis, what they need first is not answers, but presence — to know that someone sees them, understands them, and will stand beside them until they’re strong enough to remember the light for themselves.
That’s compassion — and that, too, is love in action.
Then we can gently help them remember what’s also true — that even our hardest days can lead to something greater. Because once we feel safe, loved, and understood, fear begins to fade, and the heart opens again. Then we can begin to see the meaning, the growth, and the quiet good that was waiting all along.
