How we live our lives will largely depend on what our values are and what we believe in.
So if we think that our future will depend on how we will prepare for it now, then we will certainly do the preparation and planning now.
No doubt we need to plan and prepare for the future, for we will reap what we sow now.
But that is only one side of the coin.
The other side is that we must place all our plans before the Lord and ask for His blessings and guidance.
As the 1st reading tells us: You never know what will happen tomorrow; you are no more than a mist that is here for a while and then disappears.
And the reading continues with this: The most you should ever say is - If it is the Lord's will, we shall still be alive to do this or that.
Let us always tell the Lord our plans and ask for His blessings and guidance.
And may we always make decisions that will be for the Lord so that His will may do done in us.