Planning

I have no intention of denigrating the immensity of wisdom in taking time to plan, particularly for tasks that will take relatively longer times to accomplish, and in trepidation of being accused of this on the back, let me say here on the front end that, in general, planning is good, wise, and right - it can even have a certain elegance to it! For, who would build a tower without considering the cost and allocating the means and resources to both acquire and place in mortar the bricks necessary to build, in staggered repeating fashion, as towers’ bricks most often find themselves? Who would start a surgery without having a member of the surgical team state the procedure, it’s necessity, the steps therein, and indeed even the patient who should be receiving said surgery - and confirming that this was the patient on the table? Who would start a bank without discerning the federal interest rates, vetting their borrowers, and running the calculus on their risky investments?…and the unfortunate reply is, “quite a few.” Nevertheless, planning is still generally a virtue. However, there is often and equal and fortuitous amount wisdom in understanding the times and having the virtue of making a decision, in the moment, in faith and trusting the results to divine orchestration. The alternative is not necessarily tedious and fastidious planning, but can indeed be overt introspection and paralysis. Waxing and waning on a decision, being ever tossed by every breeze of contingency and alternative outcome is not virtue, and likely vice. Being mercurial, like a pendulum, is most likely a sign of a lack of courage, and perhaps worse, a lack of faith. Sometimes decisions need to be made in the moment, for moments pass. Frankly, no decision is ironically a decision, just in the passive direction. “But what if I make a mistake?”, comes the retort. And the answer is “you may, very well”, and the one is over all, and in all, and working through all for the good of those who love him will see to it that your faith will be rewarded, even if that means course correction in the near future.