I spent a great number of years as a business person. I worked in management and consequently spent a lot of time in meetings. It always amazed me the number of meetings that could be held by a company or a department of a company. Interestingly, most, if not all of the meetings that I attended, accomplished very little in the real world. What I mean is that sitting in a room with a group of people and trying to project what might happen in a given situation or how to handle the possibilities of the consequences of that imagined situation, usually meant coming up with what might happen and then deciding, if it did happen, what might happen next. All of this was based upon suppositions, which were based in the best understanding of people who were not going to be the ones who were actually in the imaginary situation, and would not be the ones who were directly affected by those situations, even if they did somehow come to pass. The next step was to determine what the people who actually would have to deal with those situations should do, if and when the situation ever did come into being, which, as I’ve said, rarely, if ever, did happen. I actually attended one meeting that I wasn’t sure what the topic was going to be and when I arrived at the meeting, I found out that the topic of the meeting was to determine what might be the best time to hold a another meeting. Ironically, the meeting which we were deciding about when to have was a strategic planning meeting. So we were literally in a meeting, which had the purpose of planning when to have a meeting; and that meeting, which we were planning on when to have, would be about the timing for doing certain departmental activities.
Sitting there in this meeting and receiving this revelation is a moment that is forever etched into my memory. We were planning when to have a meeting that would eventually plan when to have meetings! I wanted to suggest that one of the topics for the meeting we were planning ought to be to discuss when we would have all of our other meetings, including the meeting about when to have the next planning meeting. That way, next year, we wouldn’t have to schedule a meeting like the one we were currently in, in order to plan the timing of the meeting about meeting timing, because we would already have planned it in.
If any of this makes sense to anyone out there, would you please call me and explain it all to me? The point is that we can spend our life trying to plan every thought or breath, but in reality, much of it will end up to be guess work, which never really happens. It’s okay to have a plan “B”, but maybe sometimes plan “B” could be “Let’s wait and see and we’ll deal with it then.” This doesn’t apply to everything of course, but if we can learn to become good stewards of all of our provision that God grants us, then most of the rest will fall into place, and if it doesn’t, we’ll have the provision to handle it because we’ve been good stewards.
God doesn’t want us to be foolish or reckless with His provisions, but He isn’t upset with spontaneity either. If you have a problem deciphering when to be spontaneous or to plan, it’s good to know that we can at least have a prayerful meeting with the big CEO in Heaven, who will guide us in all truth. Blessings!

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