Topic: Going To Plan B

Plans do not always work out the way we hope. When plans don't work the way we want, we have choices to make about what to do next. When plans don't work, we are challenged as a person. For a person who is full of themselves and who is driven by ego and selfishness, a plan not working is a major problem because when a plan does not work, humility is required to deal with a non-working plan. To be flexible in dealing with circumstances is an enormously important trait. To be flexible requires a person be humble enough to admit a plan did not work. To be flexible and to achieve success requires we build a backup plan to deal with unforeseen events or the failure of our initial plan. When you react with disgust and disdain over a failed plan, you are killing off your ability to function and be flexible in achieving success. The inner qualities of a person so often determine success or failure. Two people, let's call them person A and person B, can make the same initial plan and build the same kind of backup plan. However, if person A has to always have their own way and refuses to deal with adversity with humility, it makes no difference whether a backup plan exists or not. If person B encounters the same obstacle and sees defeat using the initial plan, but person B is humble, then the second person's humility will win out every time. When a person is humble, they are more than willing not to demand their own way, but to demand only the way that wins. In our Christian faith, Christ's way is always the winning way. His plan is always the winning plan.

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