There’s a great line in the movie “Bruce Almighty.”

Jim Carrey, the star, has been through a pretty bad week. He’s lost his job, his car is a piece of crap, and there are problems at home.

For him, at that moment, the world sucks — in Technicolor.

So Carrey, feeling that he’s just a speck stuck on a huge globe where no one cares, looks skyward and challenges God.

“Smite me Almighty smiter!” he screams.

The line makes my kids laugh every time.

But for me, that line wasn’t something to laugh about. Instead, it is a statement that hit close to home.

It’s a statement of frustration.

A challenge to the Supreme Being to either fix things, go away, or just end it all right then.

I understand that challenge well. Because I, too, have looked at the heavens and shook my fist at God. (Granted, it didn’t change things, but I did it nonetheless).

What I didn’t realize, though, was God was listening. And he’s given us the tools to make our lives better. We just have to take advantage of them.

Each and every day, we humans go about our lives; most of us seeking, simply, to exist.

We live in solitude. We go about the world with little thought for the rest of those humans we share this planet with.

Sure, most embrace their families and, yes, some even connect with others through faith, a social network, or, on rare occasions, by putting the other first.

But I believe that a vast majority of the occupants of this planet simply live. They get up, go to work, eat, come home, maybe hang out with the kids for a few minutes, sleep and start over.