How can I have FAITH when I can't see the plan?
Oh yes, that's lovely, but you see, it wouldn't be faith if you could see the plan. It would just be planning. But when you say I can't see the plan, what you're actually saying is, I can't see the future. You've been through the past, and have you paid attention? Have you ever noticed that it wasn't what you had set out to have happened, but it ended up taking you somewhere where you NEEDED to go. And I don't necessarily mean it took you someplace where you wanted to go. In fact, sometimes what happens is it takes you into suffering, and it really works out really badly, and then you have to ask the question, oh my gosh, what went wrong? Or the other side of it is, what motivates us to change? What motivates us to really ask a question is because something happened that just broke our capacity to function as we've always functioned. The main way you develop faith is you pay attention. You go through a hard time and people mistreat you, and it's not what you wanted, and everything goes to pot, as it sometimes does. I mean this just happens, and because you've suffered, you change, and then sometimes you change in ways that you could never have changed if it hadn't gone that way, but you would never have planned that, and if he had told you that was the plan, you wouldn't have had any faith at all in what God was doing. So the only way you can have faith is by experience, and the only way you can learn from experience is to pay attention and be honest about what has happened in your part in it, and what the real results are, even when you don't know and you wouldn't have chosen it, but do that enough times and keep a close enough record, and then when the next unexpected happens, you remember, oh yeah, what do I know?
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