inequity

I know a woman who was unable to have children.

She and her husband adopted a beautiful daughter who brightened their lives. At one year old the child fell from her crib and died.

The couple went on to adopt two more children: a son and a daughter.

While those children were still in school, their father, a high school principal and football coach, suffered a stroke and died.

This woman raised her children on her own after that, giving them a warm, loving, happy home, and as "normal" a childhood as can be expected, when one has lost one's father.

Her daughter went to college, married, and now has 5 children, and they see their Grandma almost every day.

Her son suffered a stroke more than 10 years ago, so she continues to care for him.

I'm sure this woman feels blessed, and she is. I know she is not bitter about the tough times that life has shown her.
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I know another woman who has suffered great loss and pain in her life.

Both these women are kind, gentle, loving mothers, who have always made their families their top priority.
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I know a third woman, and hear of many others like her, who has been blessed with many children, and multiple (decent, it seems) husbands. But she continues to make herself her top priority, without a care for those around her.

Why does this happen? Some will say that God gives hardship to those who can handle it. I don't like that theory. I like to believe that good things will happen to good people and bad things will happen to bad people.

But sometimes real life doesn't play along with my theory.