God's plans (Patrick Ness)

I did not come to heal her, the monster said.

I came to heal you.

--Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

  In A Monster Calls (book and screenplay by Patrick Ness, after Siobhan Dowd), as young Conor O’Malley struggles with his own response to his mother’s diagnosis of cancer, he is visited in the night by a monster inspired by a yew tree.  But while Conor wants to rely on the monster to save his mother, the monster has other plans…

  How often do we ask God for what we think we need, rather than opening to God’s plans for us?  How often do we insist we know best, when in fact, God has our back all along? How can we open to God's will in our lives, trusting in the mercy of the God who loved us into existence, and who calls us to love, each and every day?

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