manna
I'm sure most of us have heard it at one point or another. You're talking to someone who loves you dearly and is trying to comfort you after a plan or dream has fallen through. You are disappointed, and they say, "God has something so much better in store for you!" They are right, but somehow it's not comforting. You might have wanted to say, "I don't CARE! I don't want a better plan, I want this one!" Sometimes God's sovereignty can feel like a cruel joke. Certainly it's more comforting to know that an awful struggle is a gift from a loving God, rather than an uncontrolled catastrophe with the power to destroy us, but still I find myself looking in confusion to my Father and in my hurt crying out, "Really? Why this?" In times like this it can be easy to become angry with God for not letting us have it our way. A few evenings ago I was with two friends and the conversation turned to the past year, of the t...