What you can plan is too small.
For you to live.
This is one of my favorite quotes out of the poem,
What to Remember When Waking by David White.
And it speaks to the essence of We don't know.
What is best for us.
We may think we have an idea,
A five-year plan,
A goal,
A vision.
But as they say,
We make our plans and God laughs.
And it's not because God doesn't want what's best for us.
It's because sometimes we need to be thrown down.
We need to have things not go our way to open us up to what is really in store.
One of my favorite stories this past year is the story of Jim Murphy.
Jim Murphy had dreams of becoming an MLB baseball player.
He made it all the way up to the Cubs,
And then he got an issue with his eye that forced him to not be able to play baseball.
And at the time,
You could say that that was the worst thing that could have happened to Jim,
And he would have said that too.
But looking back now,
Years later,
He would say that was exactly the best thing to happen.
Because we don't know.
We don't know what we need.
And in that time period,
Jim has gone on to be an incredible performance coach and had all of these other dreams come true that he would have never had had happen if that didn't happen.
What you can plan is too small for you to live.
And so then what do we do,
Lou?
Should we just not make plans?
Like,
Do we not have goals and dreams?
David White follows his next verse in this poem,
What you can live wholeheartedly.
Will make plans for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
And so that shifts what we need to do then is to find how we live wholeheartedly.
And if we're not living wholeheartedly,
That's not going to make the plans.
That we're going to be living someone else's plans.
And so it's about finding where we can show up with our whole hearts,
What we can put our whole selves into.
And then all of a sudden doors open,
All of a sudden the life that we thought we would want to lead,
We're actually leading one that is much better than we could have ever planned because What we can plan is too small because we're not God.
And thank God for that.
Thank God for that.
What you can plan is too small for you to live.
