Plan B
By Pete Wilson
Plan B? My life is about on Plan W or X by this time. I hope there aren’t many too more ‘walls’ I have to hit or dark places of the soul I have to go in my life. My last one was 3-1/2 years ago, and I still feel like I’m healing from that breaking – which was the worst I’d ever had. I actually hope I don’t have to go through anything that severe again. I hope I’ve learned to depend on God more and break when I need breaking easier and quicker.
I jumped at the chance to read Plan B by Pete Wilson, published by Thomas Nelson, because I’ve so many ‘plans’ of mine shattered in my life before. The lessons Pastor Wilson teaches here are good ones. They will help you get through life’s lemons. It’s not about making lemonade, it’s about letting God transform you out of your shattered dreams.
Through Biblical stories and real life stories of people he knows, Pete Wilson will take you through the stages of a shattered dream and a broken life. Using the examples Naomi, the disciples, Joshua, and Job, we learn some of the things that happen, and how to get through them.
Wilson also deals with all the questions, all the platitudes, and well meaning comforters who can’t comfort. He believes that during our crisis, we are getting “more than we can handle” so that we will find ourselves in a place where we must depend on God just to get through our day.
I was touched by stories he related: his friends whose ministry dreams were shattered because of the birth of disabled twin daughters, of the successful businessman who was clueless that his wife was going to leave him, of the family of a four-year child who died of a brain tumor. There are many more.
The questions, the doubts – everything we think and feel when we go through a crisis is addressed in this book. And although Wilson admits he can’t give you a “pat” answer or tie his conclusions up in a neat little package – his points are communicated and I believe it will become a manual to help others through the breaking and shattering we all go through at one time or another.
My life has had so many dreams shattered, I’ve lost count at how many times I’ve had to re-invent myself. My latest breaking occurred 3-1/2 years ago. I’m coming out of the darkness associated with it, but it was still fresh enough that this book was helpful in giving me hope. Because we need hope. We need community. We need to respond by choosing God through crisis, if we’re to become who God wants us to become.
And for some of us ‘dull’ people….Plan W, X, Y, or Z.
Plan B? My life is about on Plan W or X by this time. I hope there aren’t many too more ‘walls’ I have to hit or dark places of the soul I have to go in my life. My last one was 3-1/2 years ago, and I still feel like I’m healing from that breaking – which was the worst I’d ever had. I actually hope I don’t have to go through anything that severe again. I hope I’ve learned to depend on God more and break when I need breaking easier and quicker.
I jumped at the chance to read Plan B by Pete Wilson, published by Thomas Nelson, because I’ve so many ‘plans’ of mine shattered in my life before. The lessons Pastor Wilson teaches here are good ones. They will help you get through life’s lemons. It’s not about making lemonade, it’s about letting God transform you out of your shattered dreams.
Through Biblical stories and real life stories of people he knows, Pete Wilson will take you through the stages of a shattered dream and a broken life. Using the examples Naomi, the disciples, Joshua, and Job, we learn some of the things that happen, and how to get through them.
Wilson also deals with all the questions, all the platitudes, and well meaning comforters who can’t comfort. He believes that during our crisis, we are getting “more than we can handle” so that we will find ourselves in a place where we must depend on God just to get through our day.
I was touched by stories he related: his friends whose ministry dreams were shattered because of the birth of disabled twin daughters, of the successful businessman who was clueless that his wife was going to leave him, of the family of a four-year child who died of a brain tumor. There are many more.
The questions, the doubts – everything we think and feel when we go through a crisis is addressed in this book. And although Wilson admits he can’t give you a “pat” answer or tie his conclusions up in a neat little package – his points are communicated and I believe it will become a manual to help others through the breaking and shattering we all go through at one time or another.
My life has had so many dreams shattered, I’ve lost count at how many times I’ve had to re-invent myself. My latest breaking occurred 3-1/2 years ago. I’m coming out of the darkness associated with it, but it was still fresh enough that this book was helpful in giving me hope. Because we need hope. We need community. We need to respond by choosing God through crisis, if we’re to become who God wants us to become.
And for some of us ‘dull’ people….Plan W, X, Y, or Z.
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