A well-thought-out plan

There’s an often told expression that says, “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.”

Of course, we ended up getting some snow Saturday night into Sunday morning. It was only a few inches — nothing like what the Midwest got last week or even other parts of Pennsylvania — but it was enough to force a change of plans. Our plans went from running to and fro to simpler ones.

The goal of the day became to shovel out. Then, it shifted to staying warm and getting lost looking out the window at a real life snow globe. Shake it up and watch the snow crystals fall to the ground.

Okay God, we got your message loud and clear. Relax, stay in the moment, and be grateful. Gotcha!

What do you do when Nature says “not so fast” and gets in the way of your best-laid plans? Do you fight it or go with the flow?

The best laid schemes of Mice and Men
oft go awry,
And leave us nothing but grief and pain,
For promised joy!

Robert Burns, To a Mouse (Poem, November, 1785)