Sometimes we treat the demolition of our “best-laid” plans with as great a sense of catastrophe as the crashing of a plane.
We tend to protect our designs – the offspring of our minds – with the same level of preciousness as our own children, but usually it’s a mistake that betrays hubris.
For instance, it was never my “plan” to abandon my blog for two months. I knew I had travel and the carpal tunnel surgery approaching that would require a herculean effort to pre-post enough material on my website, but I was still sure I could do it.
And I had wanted to do it! The first week I didn’t post immediately felt like I had lost something of myself.
But then I “turned the page” and discovered a new sense of freedom. I relaxed and allowed the events of my life to unfold without the ghost of “what am I going to write about this week?” haunting the background.
I can’t wait to share with you the thoughts that have taken life in this “liberated” atmosphere.
The point is not to have no plan. C S Lewis observed that planning for tomorrow is part of the to do list of today. What Jesus admonishes us against is “worrying about tomorrow” (Matthew 6:34).
In other words, the point lies in holding our plans loosely.
My A Plan remains to continue posting weekly in this blog, and eventually to write another book or two. But I need to be open to the possibility that Plan B may actually be better than A, and something I don’t plan may be better yet.
God knows about plans, and certainly knows better than any of us what it’s like to have us humans depart from the divine design.
The difference between us remains that whatever God wills prevails – despite the room the Lord leaves for us to exercise our free will. We can’t expect to understand the how, but we can rely on God’s ability to navigate around our crashed plans with dexterity, grace – and even surprise!
Amen to that!
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