Man Plans, God Laughs

I took a day off recently to catch up on some things around the house. Yard work mostly. I had the day all planned out. Exactly what I was going to do and the order in which I was going to do it. I scheduled the late morning to power vac the heavy accumulation of lawn clippings resulting from finally mowing the overgrown lawn the day before. As soon as the morning dew dried I would get to it. Then I heard the weather forecast. Rain heading here. Arriving soon.

As I furiously raked up the wet (dewy) grass (the power vac doesn't like wet grass), I remembered an old Yiddish saying: "Man Plans, God laughs." Or, if you wish, "the best laid plans of mice and men and women are always subject to the unknown."

While researching the origin of the saying, I ran across an interesting article you may want to read. Click here to see the article at jewishmag.com.

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