ALL my life I've tried to believe in God, to believe there is some purpose to this life.

I cannot accept that we just came out of the sea "by chance", and that we just live for, say, 70 or 80 years and that's it. There must be some reason for it all.

Despite all the horrors in life, none of us asked to be born, none of us asks to die. But here we all are - and it's up to us to make the best of it and take the long view.

GEORGE COWLEY, Worcester.