Life is...Lucky

I'm going to start a line-up of related articles titled "Life is..." This is the first one.

Life is Lucky.

We are born into such a scary, crazy world. It makes no sense to me why or how it all fits together. Perhaps I have lost my initial grounding in faith: I do believe there is a God, Christ came and atoned for my sins, and the Holy Ghost enlightens our minds. --it's just... Why are some people born or placed into circumstances where their options are so limited that they have to resort to wickedness just to survive? No, no. Not just people living in the dark ages when God was seemingly nowhere to be found, but people in our modern times who have it rough. Why can't everyone be "normal" or equal? Why are there bums living in the streets and hoes living in the ghetto? Why are there some people, men and women, who can't seem to hold a job, yet others can quit and get hired anywhere? Why do some people have opportunities and others do not?

I used to be under the impression that we earn everything we receive.--Whether good or bad. It was foolish of me. Very one-sided. Very judgmental, even though I never judged anyone. I looked at life in a paradigm that when bad things happened to people it was due to their own achievement, karma, and good grace with God; and when bad things happened to someone, I figured it was their own fault, karma, lack of graces with God, or because God was testing and trying them. But why would God use a round about way to teach someone a lesson?--Under that same line of thinking, if the lesson was learned, why aren't they immediately brought into good graces with God again and everything sorted out just fine? To justify my paradigm, I'd say that God wants us to work for the things we earn so that we really do earn everything we receive.
Thinking about it now, that just seems stupid. Why would someone who loves you and wants you to learn and grow, just like God, put you through trials without offering a means for escape? For instance, why would God try you by making it an extra challenge for you to get a job and steady income, and then even though you might learn whatever lesson it is he's trying to teach you (let's say He wants you to learn that any job is better than no job and not to be picky)--after you learn that lesson, why must you still get beat up over getting a job? If you learn the lesson, you would be in graces again, right? And whenever you're in graces, God grants you blessings, right? And so the next job interview you g into ought to be the one you stag, correct?--That's just not how life works. You still have to work for everything. Whether you're in God's favor or not, He still makes you do all the work necessary. He doesn't grant you little favors because you're doing the right thing. He also doesn't harm you because you're doing the wrong thing--that would be malicious and god isn't malicious.
So why are some people given lucky circumstances, others are not, and some even receive unlucky circumstances? As I mentioned above, I'm convinced that God wouldn't give us a trial unless he prepared a way to escape the trial, either by learning what we need to learn or doing what we need to do. Upon doing those things, we would be freed of the trial and brought back into the good-life. --this happens, I'm sure, but not often. So what about the rest of the time, is that Satan tormenting us?--Again, God has power over Satan and so if we're in God's graces then Satan shouldn't harm us, correct?

So if it's not God, and it's not Satan, that leaves man.

Man has the power to propel other men's successes or to limit them. Because of man's agency, at times it feels as though man is more powerful than God--in this life anyway. If I find grace in the eyes of a powerful man, he can grant me blessings. But if I disgrace a man who is powerful, he could as easily retaliate against me.
That is different from what I understand about God: instead of personal retaliation, God would permit Satan to torment me--that sounds too much like Calvinism: 'Sinners held up in the hand of an angry God who at any moment could drop us into living Hell if we upset Him enough with our wickedness'. --No, no. Again, it's not like that. Satan only takes hold of our lives IF we break commandments. God has nothing to do with it... So again: do we receive everything we earn and do we earn everything we receive?
I don't think so. Some people don't do anything, and yet they are showered with blessings. Others don't do anything and are showered with curses. Some people are very talented and yet no one will give them their "lucky" break.--wouldn't God or Satan be a part of that? I don't see how. Even I have that problem, I don't deserve any blessings from God from what I do, nor do I deserve any curses from Satan, I receive blessings from man all the time--and occasionally curses too, but nothing to propel me forward or set me back.

I think sometimes life is just pure luck and a touch of free choice....