My preparation and planning for life and death - Thanks to my parents

When it comes to planning for an appointment, dinner, event, or a situation I am a mixture of activities. One part of me begins immediately to organize things in my head from what is necessary to make this happen to what would be really neat to make a part of this 'planning' that isn't a requirement. The other mixture of my activities is a do nothing attitude. Just sit back and relax, things will take care of themselves, there is no need to plan or make any arrangements. Depending upon which of these two attitudes we choose to embrace we have no doubt had enough experience with both to know they have a different impact totally. Charles R. Swindoll said that "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% of how you react". This statement represents a decision that I am suggesting is made long before we find ourselves at the hour of decision. If you and I live our lives without any fore thought about possibilities, opportunities, choices, solutions or answers, then our odds of displaying the appropriate attitude for the situation we face is greatly diminished. Planning is an important part of life and more especially it is our preparation for planning. Preparation is that which we do before hand. Preparation considers options and impacts in addition to outcomes and follow-ups. Preparation is the key to all our future decisions and only once time has passed are we able to evaluation, look back and reflect upon the manner and way we lived. Life I am suggesting is about planning and planned reactions help us to remain stable when all the planning around us seems to have disappeared. In November of 2014 I faced a decision about preparation and planning. In life I have never planned or prepared for a stubbed toe. Honestly I cannot even remember the last person I spoke with about a stubbed toe situation. Seems like I can remember my parents yelling at when I was a growing up as a child, running through the house, or on the porch to be careful or I might stub my toe. Reflecting back on that childhood memory I cannot remember my parents having a follow-up conversation about this either. Maybe I missed that because I continued to run and play? It's possible this happened. No matter what the facts are regarding my memory or the possibilities of that moment back then, planning for a stubbed toe never made it to my personal radar of a danger zone. Planning for all the possible individual dangers one might face in life would be an exhausting work that I doubt could ever be completed because the list would be ever growing. My parents were successful in teaching me in a broadway about preparation for planning and the merits of the practice of planning. Principles my parents taught included personal responsibility, ideas of fate, destiny, leadership, faith and the difference between quantity and quality of life. These lessons learned over the years became in time my foundation. What was my parents planning and preparation became my tools for reaction to life experiences, which includes even a stubbed toe. Events, situations, moments and even things in life can quickly get out of hand and leave us spinning around seemingly out of control. My preparation and planning for life includes the fact that I am not in control. Life is a vapor of time that quickly passes. Our best planning is to be prepared for immediate changes that I see as opportunities to demonstrate faith not hopelessness. Despair is no road I travel because the Bible says "there is a time and purpose for everything," which includes sickness and no answers. The Bible also says that "He does all things well in His time" and that is His planning not mine. If living life is 10% of what happens to me then I personally can live with that percentage. Agreeing that 90% of life is how I react to it means that I cannot afford to get this part of my life wrong. I believe the words found in the Book of Romans 8:28. My preparation and planning includes the fact that where He, Jesus is concerned, I don't have to worry or fret because I choose His plan over mine every time. Until then