Who is calling cadence in your life?
Planning is a good thing, except when we do all the planning without consulting what God might just have in mind for our lives. Plans are a way of arranging things so a particular "scheme" comes about - we make a "schematic" of sorts. As we formulate a plan, we are really gathering a whole bunch of thoughts around all our options. Man does a pretty good job of gathering their thoughts, but not always the best job of sorting them out. It is in the "sorting" process where the right answer, or best plan on how to proceed actually comes about. Gathering thoughts is really doing nothing more than getting them all accumulated and into a place where we are ready to do something with them. As you may well imagine, some of this "gathering" on our part is just to formulate any kind of plan so we might actually muster the strength and faculties to "deal" with the thing at hand. God expects us to do the "gathering" of all our though...