Daily Lesson for June 12, 2014

Today's Daily Lesson is from Ecclesiastes 11:

5 As you do not know the way the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.  6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Here is a secret to life: A lot of things just don't work.

A farmer goes out to sow and winds out of control cast his seed on rocky ground or blow a tree through the middle of a productive field.  Rain comes and ruins the party or drowns out the alfalfa.  Life happens.

Wise people know this.  They have contingencies.  They've diversified their stocks and their crops.  They never have all their eggs in one basket.  And they don't stop casting seeds.  They don't stop because they know life is a mystery; some things grow and some things don't and only God knows why.

Smart people, on the other hand, know a sure thing when they see it.  They have a friend who has a friend who shared with them a secret - and them only.  They can't fail; they go for broke.  A half a day's work is good enough because the seed is good and the land is good and the almanac says conditions are favorable.  It really is a sure thing, a piece of cake, a slam dunk, and it's going to get them out of this mess their in.  In other words, it's the next big thing.

I think I'd rather be wise than smart.