[11th_VA]

What is the original question?

I'm not sure but here's my answer:

God controls the wind, but man controls the sails ...

[Dr. Eckleburg]

God controls the wind, but man controls the sails ...

LOL. Life is like riding a bicycle onboard a train. We feel like we're moving on our own, but we're actually going where the train takes us.

"Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.'

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Instead, you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and also do this or that." -- James 4:13-15

"Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?" -- Lamentations 3:37-38

[HarleyD]

God controls the wind, but man controls the sails ...

Perhaps something more scriptural to meditate on would be:

Psa 48:7 With the east wind You break the ships of Tarshish.