I cannot recommend this book highly enough and am already buying extra copies to give away. It has really consolidated my thinking on the journey I've been on over the last 10 years. That nothing is wasted with God - no situation or event is beyond redemption - that everything (escpecially the worst parts) are used to bring Christlikeness. After having gone through infertility, two miscarriages, a nervous breakdown, a near divorce and a wife admitted to hospital with clinical depression I have found that God has used these situations to wake me up from my comfortable-can-do-fine-on-my-own existence and transform me into the person I am today. I would never want to repeat them, but I am grateful to God that he took whatever was necessary to change me from the selfish, frightened, addicted and arrogant man that I was. Pete opens his heart with gut-wrenching and brutally honest stories from his own and friends lives - he has walked the walk and doesn't offer pat answers or easy steps. But he does bring the light of the God of all help into where you're at. Don't hesitate in purchasing this for you or someone you love who is walking a tough road - and better yet purchase it ahead of time that you would understand that success in God's eyes is not how we would ever define success so that WHEN the storms come you are better able to co-operate with the work that he will do in you.

When I heard the summary of this book I knew it had a great deal of potential. I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I didn't really plan to be sitting in the seat I am today, doing what I'm doing, at times things have seemed to all be going in the wrong direction and it's scary to be in the middle of that. Pete's book reminds us that God is in control, that some of His greatest work happens in us when everything around us, our plans and hopes, seem to be in shreds. I read the book in one sitting and found that not only is this new author a fantastic communicator, but also that his message in Plan B is one that lots of us need to hear. I recommend that anyone who's ever thought God, this isn't how it's supposed to be read this, even if you, like me, are out on the other side of those difficult uncertainties, this book will help with those What if? moments.