God's thoughts are not our thoughts, and our ways
are not His ways.
Have you noticed that those who carry on about
"God's plan" are often really trying to foist their own plan on the
rest of us? I find the very expression "God's plan" somewhat
suspicious, because to me making "plans" is quintessentially human,
rather than divine. We are so little, so vulnerable, so much at the mercy of
forces greater than ourselves, that we naturally strive to get a grip on the
situation, figure it out, map it out, make a plan that will work like a charm
and order the world into something we can understand. Except that having a plan
doesn't make it God's plan, and doesn't make us God. We remain little, vulnerable, and at the mercy
of great forces.
The prophet Isaiah shows us another way. Inviting
us to drink to quench our thirst and to eat to delight our soul, he tells us
that we can buy food and drink without any money. How unlike our thoughts and
ways! The word of God, the Prophet tells us, rains down on us, turning the
barren soil into fertile earth. So let's not run for cover but instead accept
this bountiful rain and let it nourish us and make us fruitful. Not constrained
by a plan, but sustained by God's life-giving, loving covenant.
Tommaso Besozzi
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