Word for the Week

How to Plan Ahead

Week beginning: 16th April, 2017 | By Adam Taylor | London

"Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

James 4:13-15 (ESV)

Lawyers tend to be highly organised people: client deadlines are carefully noted in the work diary and even social calendars are frequently planned many months in advance.

Yet perhaps we are not always as in control as we like to think we are. In jus