14bNo one knows what is coming—who can tell him what will happen after him?
I love the movie Forest Gump. He seems to stumble into success. He has no idea what will happen next, or why. He just lives life, giving to others, without thought of himself. He survives a hurricane by being fool-hearty. He buys some stock in a fruit company, Apple, and gets rich. He bulldozes a house because the woman he loves throws stones at it and cries. Sometimes we are so foolish to think that we know the future. We can know the ultimate future with certainty, the next weeks can be very difficult. Will the Euro survive? Will we muster the political will to stop spending ourselves out of existence? Will our spouse return? Will our kids ever respect us? Will I be able to stop comfort eating? Will they find a cure in time? We just don’t know the future. All we have control over is this present moment, and we can’t control the outside forces that might interrupt our present moment. This is what Solomon is discovering and sharing with us. The person who is always living solely for tomorrow, trying to control its direction, will soon find themselves on the wrong path of time. Things will not always go the way we want them to go.
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