Is There Always A Lesson That Exists in Everything We Experience?

First of all, I want to share that my daughter is starting to show good improvement now, and God willing, she will continue in this direction and be released from the hospital soon.

It is often said that a lesson exists in everything we experience. Sometimes, death happens unexpectedly, natural disasters occur and take many lives, unexpected illness appears out of nowhere, we keep making the same mistakes over and over again, and continue. Often there are no adequate answers to why these events occur. More often than not, we hear it said that there is a lesson that exists in everything we experience. Sometimes we hear, we are exactly where we are supposed to be, in the right place at the right time. God does not give us more than we can handle. But is it always a good lesson that we experience?

For example, as a Jew, I cannot understand there being anything good about losing 6 million Jews who were brutally murdered during the Holocaust. It is equally difficult for me to understand why children are born with severe birth defects, such as down-syndrome, or serious mental illnesses such as bi-polar disorders, or schizophrenia. I cannot understand how young people, in the prime of their lives, are killed in car accidents. What are the lessons to be learned there?

Here is the question of the day: Is there a lesson that exists in everything we experience? Is it always a good one? If not, I do you reconcile it with your faith, and belief that this is what God has in store of us as individual's or as a group of people?