Controlled Countdown

Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”  (James 4:13–15, NIV 1984). 

My Musings – As seen on social media:  “It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my universal remote control did not, in fact, control the universe. Not even remotely.”  

We would like to believe, I think, that we are the masters of our own destiny.  We want to control our own lives, if not also the lives of others.  At least to the extent that…