This is my first blog post in a month, and it’s good to be back! Script Frenzy was a lot of fun full of excitement and hard work. I now have a first draft written of another story that was sitting in my story pile. As all firsts do, this draft stinks. When I pull it down from the shelve and begin to rewrite it, then the fun begins.
Today, I will be starting off my blog posts with a book review of Pete Wilson’s Plan B. It is a compelling work on what to do when life does not turn out the way that you had planned, which so often is the case. Filled with poignant true life stories of individuals and couples who faced horrific disappointments in their life, Pete uncovers the hope that brought them through their tragedies to happiness on the other side.
The first thing that struck me in reading the book is how comprehensive it is. Many who write on the subject of personal pain tend to limit their scope to a particular type of suffering. Some speak of chronic illness. Others of relational crisis. Still others of personal failure. Pete covers them all, including the loss of lifelong dreams. Relating these circumstances to the lives of Biblical characters, Pastor Wilson assures us that even if we don’t know understand what is happening to us, we can trust that God is still loves us.
That’s the crux of the book. All of us have some kind of plan for our lives. It’s a good plan with success and happiness in the picture. The reality is that each one of us, with our carefully thought out plans, will be forced to throw the plan away and divert to a plan we never considered–Plan B. Plan B’s come in many forms, but they will come. In those times, we can choose to trust that God is there and will walk us through it, or we can give up hope.
Pete Wilson points us to the cross as the sign of hope’s triumph, even in the face of a Plan B. God did not keep His Son from a painful event, even death. Yet even in death, God still had the last word and resurrected His Son. In the same way, God always has the last word and will resurrect our broken souls.
Get the book. You won’t regret it.
