Plan B - Pete Wilson

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Title: Plan B: What Do You Do When God Doesn't Show Up the Way You Thought He Would?
Author: Pete Wilson
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 2.5/5
# pages: 222
Date read: August, 2013

Pete Wilson reaches beyond the typical Christian response to offer frank understanding, honest encouragement, and real hope for your Plan B reality. Drawing on real-life stories from the Bible (David, Joseph, Mary, and Martha) and the present day, he writes to help you:
* Move past the feelings of crisis: panic, fear, paralysis, and overcontrol
* See God in your circumstances--even when he doesn't seem to be there at all
* Make peace with doubt, which can actually be an expression of faith
* Find hope through the redemptive power of community
* Ask the right questions in order to find real, satisfying answers
* Explore the relationship between shattered dreams and true spiritual transformation

Lots of questions, but no real answers. Basically this book gave a lot of examples of situations where people were forced into a Plan B, and then related their responses to it. But the only answer offered to the subject question is "Trust" ... and perhaps "Hope". Both true answers to be sure, but nothing I wasn't aware of already.

But to be fair, I don't exactly now what other kind of answer I was looking for... possibly just some more concrete examples of how to trust in God. Rather than just offering the platitude of "Let God be the editor of your life" (which doesn't even make much sense to me), I'd like specific instructions of how one goes about doing that. Probably impossible to give, as they're bound to differ from person to person, but in that case, just some examples of how real-life people set out to do it.

Unfortunately that's my problem with many Christian self-help books.