Plans

Plans are as you make them. They are totally in your control. You can dream, you can wish, you can imagine, and no one can stop you.

Once you try to put your plans into action, however, you are subjecting them to a host of circumstances that can and will work against them. They will snap and take and bend and break and thoroughly dessimate your plans until they are barely recognizable as the bright dream you once nurtured and grew.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain who build it.

And, like a child entering the world, wretched, helpless and pitiful, your plans pass this test.

And it's worth it.