The Perfect Plan

The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Funny thing about our best intentions, they don’t always turn out as we had hoped.

 We make all sorts of plans.  We may carefully plan out every detail, orchestrating it “perfectly”. We make plans for our careers, for having a family, saving for a house, taking a vacation. Plans are good… they give us direction, help us to form a path, set a course.  They can even motivate us to bring our ideas into form.

Often we expect that our plan will unfold exactly as we envisioned.  Sometimes we hold fast to those ideas. We get upset, disappointed, even depressed when things don’t go our way; when our plan goes awry. We expect that our end goal should turn out exactly the way we had pictured it.

Usually, that isn’t the way life goes. There are obstacles along the path. The road we travel twists and bends. Sometimes our journey is steep. We grow weary making the climb. We feel like giving up. Maybe we do give up.  

Do not despair. The bumps along the way are what make the journey interesting and colorful. Those obstacles are what make our diligent effort, works of art. They help to mold our vision to a form that we could never have imagined and yet the results,oh so much more exquisite than our plan ever was!

The next time your well laid plan feels that it is unraveling, take a slow, deep breath. Ease up, slow down. Know… trust, that your plan is coming together in just the right way and just the right timing.  You do not have to effort so. Step back, look at the bigger picture, allow your life to unfold.