Tuesday
November 18, 2014

RPG

A reasonable plan

When it was Julie's turn to speak she said, "There is a Devine plan for all of us."

Seal reacted as if she'd just been kicked in the shins. "Was it part of God's plan for me to be beaten and abused? There's no plan." Julie and Seal got into a heated discussion. Tony and Kim sided with Seal, while Martell and Roger sided with Julie.

Michelle tried to inject some rationality into the discussion, hoping to calm down the entire group.  "There's two issues here, plan and reason." Seal wasn't having it, and the discussion got louder.

Finally, Julie said to me, "Tell them there is a Divine plan."     

I said, "Sometimes I think the plan is for us to reduce each other's suffering.  We have the tools, but we'd rather argue about the plan.  People love to say 'everything happens for a reason.'  What's the Divine reason for child abuse, starvation, rape, murder, and disease?   Maybe that reason is we haven't followed the plan, we haven't done enough to help each other."

Today I plan to do more for others.

Relapse Prevention Group © 2014 by Ken Montrose

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