Of Best Laid Plan

One thing we learn over and over isno matter how important planning is,and no matter how meticulously each detail is addressed,or each prospect visualized,plans, at best, are extremely volatile!The 'best laid plan' therefore, with humble 'Thy will be done'should always be entrusted to the Higher Handwho orchestrates Purpose far beyond the frames we peer throughto hopes and dreams not accomplished yet! With all the unexpected snow days this winter it seems like possibly I am being conditioned for the childcare break coming up....or, at least that is the plan😅🙏 Sometimes it feels like life is simply a constant sequence of changed plans/ misplaced puzzle pieces! I'm trying to decide if today is the day I commit to starting a puzzle and if so, which one?! Plans are like phantom pieces to a puzzle thought perceivesOf panoramic vistas wafting on volatile breezeWhere soon, even a child begins to learn the simple factHow plans at best, are pictures that we cannot keep intact No matter how meticulously we try to arrangeThe pieces to fit perfectly; still, often plans will changeTeaching us to be patient as we reconcile the artOf relinquishing pictures that change-of-plans pulls apart How often heart shaped tatters scatter where no one can seeSave we who bear the brunt of Planning’s altered sceneryHow often, as we grapple with the pictures we releaseWe are reminded of the Hand beneath each puzzle piece © Janet Martin James 4:13-15Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”