Don’t Plan Your Year—Plan Your ‘Season’

I don’t like surprises, which is why I’m a planner. I plan my days, my weeks, my months, and my years. So, by December 29, 2019, I had most of 2020 planned out. I knew most of what I was going to do and when I was going to do it. I’d even designed a slate of discipleship classes for my church and scheduled them on exact days from January to the end of December 2020.

But then January came, and I learned a new word that would soon disrupt my careful plans: coronavirus.

In the year of our Lord 2020, I gained a new appreciation for James 4:13: “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.” I also acquired a new respect for planning in terms of seasons instead of years. Read More