"There are two basic ways to adapt. Sometimes we have enough situational awareness to understand a situation in advance and take preparatory action. This is anticipation. At other times we have to adapt to the situation on the spur of the moment without time for preparation. This is improvisation. To be fully adaptable, we must be able to do both."
-- MCDP 1-3: Tactics
Proverbs 4:26
Ponder the path of your feet;
then all your ways will be sure.
If you're watching where you're going, you'll get to where you want to go. Anyone with eyes in their head can look straight ahead and see what's next. You don't just point your toes where you wants to goes. You prepare for the obstacles you perceive ahead.
But some things come out of nowhere and there's no way you could have seen them coming.
Proverbs 16:9
The heart of man plans his way,
but the Lord establishes his steps.
When the ground gives way where you didn't expect or the path proves more difficult than you anticipated, you must possess the ability to improvise or die. Either you pitch your old plans or you perish. Some prefer to have their plans pried from their cold, dead hands rather than adapt to the steps the Lord has established. If you refuse to be where you are by insisting on being where you'd like to be, you will end up where you don't want to go.
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