Each person's life has "meaning" - and that meaning is related to divine purpose.
I think this is quite clear, if you know what to look for - in your own life, and the lives of those you know and love.
I mean that people always (sooner or later) get the experience/s they most need for spiritual development.
However, that does not mean that every individual "automatically" learns from each such experience -- Indeed, very often, it seems that people do not learn from personal experiences that could be of great personal benefit.
Or else people learn something wrong and contrary to divine purpose, from experiences; they choose to lean a lesson contrary to God's hope and intentions.
For instance; when some adverse experience that could be corrective if properly understood; is instead used as an excuse or rationale for doubling-down on some sin; such as fear, resentment, or despair.
But what makes all this less obvious is that not all of life is related to divine purpose.
It is the nature of this life and world we are currently experiencing that there is entropy/ death and there is evil.
What this means is that things happen that are Not part of the divine purpose.
What God the Creator can do and does; is make the best of these things.
So that if some-thing happens to a person that is simply the result of entropy (some degenerative phenomenon or disease for example); or a consequence of evil motivation or service to evil; then consequently God will create - such as later to enable something to be gained (or salvaged) from this adverse occurrence.
All of this points at the need for discernment, because understanding and learning are inevitably confused and clouded by the nature of ourselves and this world; the process of discerning and learning is one requiring active participation and culminating in freedom to choose how to be, and where to go next.
We must be able to discern which experiences are God given, and which are not. We must and inevitably do also work from our state of freedom.
Creation is not something done-to-us. Divine purpose is that we participate in creation.
And when an experience was not a part of divine purpose, we may need to be able to discern at what point God has (later) been able to present us with the possibility of deriving Good from evil.
We make such discernments partly from that which is divine within-us; and partly (since the time of Jesus Christ) by guidance from the Holy Ghost...
In other words, the capacity for true discernment is innate, and does not need to be derived from external sources - although, of course, external sources of guidance may be helpful in true discernment - just as external guidance is (here and now) more usually harmful.
So much for this world we live-in, this mixed-world, this world that mixes divine creation and purpose with entropy and evil...
A further thing that God purposes that we learn is that this mixed world (the Primary Creation) may be escaped after death and the separation of our spirit from our incarnate form; because after death (and only after death) we may follow Jesus Christ through resurrection with eternal life; and into a Second Creation that is Heaven.
Therefore, there will be divinely purposed experiences in this mortal life of ours (assuming we live long enough) that may be understood (if we are prepared to learn) as pointing towards the possibility of Resurrection and Heaven beyond death.
i.e. Experiences that may (if we discern aright) be understood as pointing towards Salvation.
Yet if, for whatever reason, we do not get such experiences during this mortal life (perhaps we die in the womb, or as infants) then such experiences as we need to be enabled to choose Heaven; will surely be provided after death. But again we are free to learn from them or not, and to choose Heaven or not.
In sum: there is a divine purpose (or more than one purpose) for each person incarnated into this world; and this purpose is related to learning a lesson, or several lessons, during our life.
Each person's purpose will be unique, because each person is unique - because each person had a pre-mortal spirit life before human incarnation - which is why people are unique individuals from before birth.
Because our purpose is unique, and because this world is a mixture of divinely created purpose with entropy and evil; discernment is required. We must recognize when we are being divinely taught; and when not...
But even when our life's happenings are due to evil Beings, or due to the innately entropic nature of this world - we should be alert to the ways in which divine creation can shape subsequent events, sooner-or-later to present us with possibilities for learning important life lessons.
Meaning and purpose are not "given": they need to be discerned...
We need to learn from them, and that is our job: we also need to learn the right (i.e. divinely intended) lessons from them.
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