There seems no plan because it is all plan.

If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education would be very different.

Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis