Friday, 2 April 2010

don't plan

Fried & Hansson recommend that we downgrade our planning for the future into guessing about the future - that way we're freed from obsessing over it and able to improvise along the way. They make a number of helpful points and conclude with these words:

Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.

(They're talking businesses but you can think 'church' too and find their work stimulating and helpful. The above example put me in mind of James 4:13ff.)