MAN PLANS......

.....but The Highest Authority decides.

The foundations of the world and the bases of human life and relationships have been fixed since time immemorial; that does not mean that they do not or cannot change, but measured by the length of human existence they seem eternal. The relationship between their endurance and the length of human existence is as the relationship between the uneasy, swift surface of a river and its stable and solid bed whose changes are slow and imperceptible. The concept of “change” in this state of affairs is perhaps unthinkable and unacceptable. The desire for sudden change and its achievement by force often appears almost as a disease in the mind of man.  It is not human desires that dispose and administer the events of the world, for desire is like a wind – it shifts the dust from one place to another often darkening the entire horizon but eventually calms down and leaves the old, eternal picture of the world.

All daring words and turbulent desires basically change nothing; they pass beneath the great and permanent realities of the world and will be lost when all winds and desires are stilled.

Great men arise only when they are appointed to rise, in their rightful place and independent of the vanities and empty short-lived desires of humanity. “Comes the time, comes the man”.

We individuals may make our plans in anticipation of carrying them out; in the final analysis it is The Highest Authority who decides whether they will be so carried out.

Until next time (on firm foundations),

Peripatetic Scribe