Uncertainty - Two

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.”  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche  

Not only do I have friends who are stubborn in the path they have chosen, I tend that way myself.  It’s as if I was told, “You play right field.  Stand over there.  

So, not thinking at all about the GOAL of the right fielder, I stand, game after game, where I was told the path was, not even trying to catch or stop balls that whiz by a few feet away.  In fact, if I ever knew the goal of the right fielder, I forgot it in the stubborn commitment to the path -- stand over there.  

How many pastors continue to lead their church in ways that reflect the path, not the goal?  How many business people learned a way of being a business person that no longer works, not longer achieves the goal, but, by golly, they stubbornly stay on the path while the business fails?

Uncertainty about the goal, and certainty about the “way it should be done” combine to equal failure, now or in the future.  It would be better to have a little uncertainty about the goal -- feeing my family, making a living, ending the year with a good profit or whatever, and a great uncertainty about the path -- the best method now for reaching the goal.

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