We are, together, trying to navigate through times when plans are evaporating.
For some, wedding plans, or holiday plans, or long-anticipated overseas trips, or just get-togethers.
I am reminded of the words in James 4:
You should know better than to say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to the city. We will do business there for a year and make a lot of money!” What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.
Or Proverbs 27:
Each day brings its own surprises.
Nevertheless, plans are good and planning is important. I have friends who wouldn’t begin a trip until every contingency is written down and budgeted, and every day accounted for. Others I know who would rather take an adventure where each day is a mini-discovery. I expect that you would be more comfortable with one or the other. We are each of us different.
We are, and our plans are, always subject to circumstances.
For me, I gain peace and assurance that ultimately, I am in the hands of one who is not subject to, but above circumstances.
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations.
Psalm 33:11