Our family just finished J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. I particularly love the last page, where the whole adventure is summed up. It is true: God is working out His sovereign plan (the master adventure) and we are participants, seeing only our bit (and that, dimly). Here are the last few lines:
"Then the prophecies of the old songs have turned out to be true, after a fashion!" said Bilbo.
"Of course!" said Gandalf. "And why should they not prove true? Surely you don't disbelieve the prophesies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don't really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
"Thank goodness!" said Bilbo, laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.
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