"Beware of Pride" was the chapter heading in the book "Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith" that I was reading earlier today. The subject matter is one that I have been thinking about some recently. This from the book caught my attention:

"Beware of pride ...for well and truly hath the wise man said, that pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.............outward appearance is not always a criterion by which to judge our fellow man; but the lips betray the haughty and overbearing imaginations of the heart....................A fanciful and flowery and heated imagination also beware of; because the things of God are of deep import; and time and experience and careful and ponderous and solemn thoughts can only find them out."

My own blog suggests that even specific thoughts may in fact just be random........................... or maybe what it suggests is that even random thoughts are indeed specific having a connection to "something". Maybe that something is a trend or a direction, or a path to an influence that is good or bad. The best goal or the best choice about "thoughts" is to not let them be "Random" but to keep them directed towards good. The answer to the question, "does everything happen for a reason" is an easy one. Everything does indeed happen as a result of the direction your reaching for. Pride obviously is a wrong turn for reaching the right direction.