In the business
of Project Management as an engineering science the challenge is to obtain a
defined result by a specific point in time and for a predetermined budget of
resources. In the
methodologies that aid in managing projects there are many techniques aimed at
identifying risks, deciding which risks are most likely and their impact.
Then discovering and putting in place mitigations that improve
the probability of the project being successful.
Project risks are always problematic because of constrained
time and resources.
Imagine how we could operate if there were no limits in time
or resources. What if the project objective was
defined by an infinite set of resources and outcomes?
In God’s infinity we have such a paradigm. In quantum world all things are possible and
all things exist. The fact that I am
sitting here writing this is one of those possibilities and the fact that you are reading it is yet another. I have no way
to know either who will eventually read this or what impact it will have.
Humans like me, and I suspect you, experience a limit to
being able to fully understand God's plan.
In the history of His revelation of Himself to us we find expansive
amounts of time and generations of people who lived to create conditions needed
for His lessons to be taught to humanity.
The concept of the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit) stands at the center of all lessons taught to date. The “Father” represents the Love and Grace of
God, the “Son” was the demonstrator and Teacher of how we are to behave in
life, and God the “Holy Spirit” is the infinite nature of God that spans all
time and creation. All three are with us
as we live our lives.
It is our impatience that makes the lessons taught to date
ineffective. We want our lives to
matter, We want instant gratification, we want our Church to be successful, and
we want to see our understanding of the plan completed in our lifetime.
As we live our lives and eventually die we must take comfort
in knowing that whatever happens, God’s plan has already succeeded. Our contributions may not be obvious as we
live our lives but be assured that our contributions do matter.
We must remember that Gods patience is unlimited. In essence there are contingencies and
resources in His plan to mitigate any risk that our decisions may create. When time is unlimited all things are possible. God already has results as He exists in the infinite.
As we live our lives all action possibilities are known
before we choose; however, the evaluation of our actual choices is knowable in
the context of the quantum plan as soon as we make them. There are no choices that we can make that will
cause God’s plan to be ineffective; but, there are choices that we can make
that are considered wrong. We can and do impact each other.
At the end of our individual lives our evaluation will be
based on the choices we made. Did we
appreciate the Grace and Love of God the Father, did we follow the example of
God the Son, Jesus Christ and did we follow the inspiration of God the Holy
Spirit?
Someone once said, “Did you love?”
As I say in the header of this Blog:
“The space between yesterday and tomorrow, the only lever
that we have!”
As I live my day to day life the question can only be, what am I going to do
now? I must remember that even inaction is a decision.
After all, I am a Project Manager and must do
something!
By: David Connor Mims Sr.
