God’s Instrument

For some people, faith comes easily as their ways and beliefs are accepted by the people at large. These people can go about with their faith worrilessly. Others have to pay a price on account of their faith to God or whatever such thing that their belief may be. Those are people often must suffer by body, heart, or mind for what they believe in. In the book, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Owen had to pay a large price for his belief that he was God’s instrument : his innocence, his best friend’s mother, his ignorance, and, in the end, his life.
One of the blessings of childhood is the carefree way of life that a child can live in for those many years before they are forced to see the truths of the world and themselves. Owen’s innocence was robbed from him when he was only ten years old. His parents revealed to him a strange truth : Owen had been a virgin birth. Mr. and Mrs. Meany had not conceived Owen by way of sex. Instead he had merely been conceived by mad Mr...