we are called to see the gracious hand of a designing God in our lives.

much more can the God of all creation accomplish? By his sovereign will, we have come into being with an expressed and designed purpose.

is it not possible that the Grand Weaver has a design in mind for you, a design that will adorn you as he

But it was not to be.

uses your life to fashion you for his purpose, using all the threads within his reach?

As much as that retrospective look troubles us, however, it makes for a fascinating confirmation that without God, the thing never would have happened.

Let us see how the threads of your hopes, your dreams, and your calling come into place spiritually, practically, and intellectually.

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

Major Major's father had a Calvinist's faith in predestination and could perceive distinctly how everyone's misfortunes but his own were expressions of God's will.

Certainly,nothing proceeded according to desire.In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental. Good intentions had miscarried, and bad ones had not improved.

Why can't you be a fatalist about it the way I am? If I'm destined to unload these lighters at a profit and pick up some Egyptian cotton cheap from Milo, then that's what I'm going to do. And if you're destined to be killed over Bologna, then you're going to be killed, so you might just as well go out and die like a man. I hate to say this, Yossarian, but you're turning into a chronic complainer

The men were perfectly content to fly as manny missions as we asked them as long as thought they had no alternative. Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.