His will for me

For senior seminar we are reading The Will of God as a Way of Life by Jerry Sittser, after only reading the first 3 pages I found myself in tears, needless to say I think I am going to be getting a whole lot out of this book. I have to write a response on the first chapter which I will do this weekend and post on here because it basically is going to be all about the circumstances surrounding my Dad because the first chapter was speaking directly about what I know God is trying to teach me right now.

But for now I will leave this excerpt from the book as a teaser...

"I could not believe that God had suddenly changed his mind about what he willed for us-a good marriage, and a healthy family. How, then, could my life as a single father of three traumatized children also be the will of God? The accident forced me to reconsider me assumptions about God's will. Did God plan only "the good life" for me? If so, I wondered how I could integrate suffering into my understanding of God's will. Or did God plan something very different for me, something still good, but also hard and painful at the same time? If so, I had to face the prospect that my approach to the will of God was entirely mistaken."