Confused

So in looking at Week 5 and Week 7, I've decided that I sorta screwed up my Week 7 post during Week 5 and pushed them together. I decided I wanted to redo Week 5 more than Week 7, so here we go. I think one of the movies from my youth that had a profound effect on me was The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. We all have times where we wonder, why me? This question is often followed by another: what should I do now? The answer to these questions, at least for me, was found in a response Gandalf made to Frodo. Frodo had expressed his dismay over having ever come into contact with the ring. He told Gandalf that he wished "none of this had happened." Gandalf responded that everybody feels that way during hard times, "But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us." Sometimes decisions are easy and straightforward, sometimes they are very difficult. When hard times come, and tough decisions must be made, it is then that we will find out who we really are. From a Gospel viewpoint, that is why the Lord allows us to have trials, so that we can know for ourselves where we are on the pathway to perfection. I like to think that everytime we are placed in a circumstance we would rather not be in, that the Lord has had a hand in it. This isn't because I want to believe that he is hoping we will fail, or that we will mess up. Instead I like to think that He has given me an opportunity to prove to myself that when things are bad and everything is going against me, I will choose to do something positive with the opportunity that has been given to me, no matter how bleak things may seem in the present. That is why I like that movie so much. It teaches us that although unwanted things may come our way and push us right to our breaking point, it is still our decision that counts. We still have the ability to make a choice. The best choice will rarely be the easiest, but in the end, it will be the most rewarding.