"I'm Not Sure God Really Cares!"
Ultimately, it is inexpedient to faith and injurious to religion for one to claim to know the will or plan of God in partisan politics. As it always seems to turn out, it’s not all that good for politics either. I will confess that I am uneasy when I hear someone talking about an event they participated in or an experience they had or a circumstance that has occurred in their life, and then somewhere in the remarks, they say something like “this is God’s will for my life” or “this is part of God’s plan for me.” I don’t use that kind of language to describe either my own spirituality or my experience in life, and maybe that’s the reason why I’m uneasy when I hear it from others. It seems somehow pretentious, a bit gnostic, to lay claim to knowing even a fragment of the divine purpose that is not otherwise disclosed to others of like religious faith. It also seems too individualistic for my comfort, and I imagine what others might think or feel when they hear the certitude of o