Careful Plans
Accepting mistakes.
Peering through the morning fog, on an early mountain walk. Does this path go where I thought? Is it blocked ahead?
I made careful arrival plans on which much depends. I did not account for delay.
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What, then, becomes of tomorrow in the case of today's mistakes? Is failure your will for me, Lord?
Or is your will that I learn the futility of the self-powered life, and the joy of peaceful surrender?
Let me learn rightly, Lord.
– from the mountain
Consider:
How can I have equanimity in the face of your will?
Reading:
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
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Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. —PSALM 119:35
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