The Invisible Hand

Jennifer at Scandal of Particularity and Camassia have good posts on the question of Providence. This is an issue I feel woefully underequipped to address. I think the direction in which one has to look, though, is at the examples of Christ and the Martyrs who followed God’s will even when it involved doing what seemed like folly. Maybe what a belief in Providence asserts is not that every particular event is willed by God (like finding a parking space!), but that the future is in God’s hands, and our role is to play our part as best we can. However, this is one place where I find it best to follow Wittgenstein’s advice to shut up about that of which I can’t speak well…