Life Does Try To Be Fair

​Last night, Colin Dorgan scored the game-winning goal in double overtime to help advance his high school team to the Rhode Island hockey state championship game.

No big deal, right? High school athletes make big time plays all the time. Well, this big time play comes with a bit of a back story.

Last month, Dorgan's mom, brother, and grandfather were killed in a shooting at a local ice rink. Dorgan was wearing a patch on his jersey to honor them when he scored the game-winning goal.

As one might expect, his teammates and the crowd rushed him in celebration. Dorgan said, "It was the greatest moment of my life."

I would never suggest that his greatest moment somehow balances the scales of what was surely this young man's worst moment. I would not dare argue that this somehow makes life fair. But it is my experience, if we pay close enough attention, life does indeed TRY to be fair.

It's an evil world. I won't pretend otherwise. Life can feel in over it's head at times trying to reveal goodness in the midst of it all. But I am thankful that life never gives up trying. I am thankful that I wake up most days with a sense that life really wants to work for me and not against me. (Even on the days when I probably don't help life out with that work as much as I could).

I look at this young man's face. I see celebration rising to the surface of a soul that surely feels a deepest kind of loss.

What a reminder - life is full of loss.

Defeat.

But victory - well stay tuned, because victory is right around the corner.