[Harry Rex Vonner]

I have heard your analysis many times from Baptist preachers. It comes right from the fundamental textbook. However, I believe that it is quite difficult to expect a black teenager of borderline intelligence who was born to a dope head mother and an absent father, who has lived in a world of drugs, alcohol, and crime all his/her life, who has been in and out of the juvenile system many times, who goes to bed hungry most nights, and who is shunned as a lesser soul by his/her classmates and teachers at school to really grab on to the idea that God loves him/her. Words tend to be meaningless and rightfully so, I believe.

On the other hand, for those who live in opposite situations and are only troubled by deciding whether to shop for the new clothes at Banana Republic or American Eagle, accepting the fact of God's love is rather easy.

Now, we can place all the blame for inequities on flawed human beings. Nonetheless, if honest, we must have many unanswered questions and being told that we are not to question "God's Plan" really doesn't suffice.