{"id":1906,"date":"2010-04-18T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T20:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2010-04-18T12:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T18:52:23","slug":"today-the-gathering-how-to-make-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-how-to-make-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Today @ The Gathering: How to Make Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/i355.photobucket.com\/albums\/r472\/barbaramcgee\/flyers\/how-icon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"106\" \/>How often do we try to live our lives without making plans?\u00a0 And yet think about how much of our lives demands planning: money, family, time; time to take care of our bodies, our minds, and our souls.<\/p>\n<p>You know all of this requires a plan.\u00a0 Today we talked about the importance of planning; the practical aspects and perspectives that come from the Scriptures about planning.<\/p>\n<p>We talked about these perspectives:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Act or be acted upon.<\/li>\n<li>Life lavishly rewards the diligent, but severely punishes the lazy.<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve got to figure out what matters most, focus on that, and let everything else float on by.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone ends up somewhere, but few people end up somewhere on purpose.<\/li>\n<li>When your love wounds diminish the one you love, you are an enabler.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are the ideas we talked about as we talked about the importance of making a plan.\u00a0 If you find yourself today in a place you don\u2019t like, the best way to get to where you want to be is make a plan.\u00a0 We talked about how to do it, what the steps are, and the questions to ask. Check out the talk here <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/davidfosteratthegathering\">on the podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How often do we try to live our lives without making plans?\u00a0 And yet think about how much of our lives demands planning: money, family, time; time to take care of our bodies, our minds, and our souls. You know all of this requires a plan.\u00a0 Today we talked about the importance of planning; the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/today-the-gathering-how-to-make-plans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today @ The Gathering: How to Make Plans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}