Of making plans.
"Commit your actions to the LORD, and your plans will succeed." - Proverbs 16:3, NLT Three years ago, fresh after getting out of a four-year relationship, I made plans to finally go travelling solo again. Problem was, the job I had then only allowed for eight days of annual leave. However, the company did have a policy allowing its staff to take up to a year of unpaid leave. So, I started saving up and made plans to take the following year off to travel. Nonetheless, a different opportunity presented itself before my initial plan came to fruition. Great thing about it was that what eventually happened ended up much better than my initial plans. I ended up working the whole year last year and travelling every other month. I had saved up enough to travel for the whole year, but turned out, I didn't have to dig into my savings, as my new company offered more annual leaves (and a salary bump from the previous job!). Failing to plan is planning to fail. Among ...