God's Plan for You

Yesterday I saw a book with the title, "God's Plan For You". The author, judging from appearances, is a middle-aged, upper middle class, American white woman with big blonde hair and plenty of make-up and expensive clothes.

Not that any of that means anything - none of those characteristics is essentially wrong or bad or evil.

Still, it begs the question. How well off, well fed, safe, and free does a person need to be before he or she asks the question, "What is God's plan for me?"

Because I'm wondering, what is God's plan for that teenage girl in Pakistan who just got flogged by the Taliban? (And what is it with the Taliban - grown men beating up little girls????)

What is God's plan for the young Somali girl who is brutalized by ritual genital mutilation and then given in marriage to an old man?

What is God's plan for the children in India who are dying of starvation? Does God have a plan for each of them, the way he apparently has for well-nourished Americans?


Well, I could keep ranting, but you get the picture. In fact, I do think God has a plan for me, and for you, and for each of us. He told us so himself quite a long time ago, and somebody collected the details and put them in a book.

Feed the hungry.
Shelter the homeless.
Comfort the lonely.
Care for the sick.
Clothe the naked.
Be kind.
Be humble.
Have mercy.
Love one another.