God Proposes, Man Disposes – An Inverted Truth

“Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit” or, Man Proposes but God Disposes; quite a common saying, isn’t it? A frequent justification for what went wrong; very age-old reasoning. We seek comfortable refuge in the understanding that a divine power is directing our ways. There is a greater hand; a higher power which is at work and the human agency is subservient to that power. The proverb can be traced back to the 1400s, in an insightful Latin devotional work, Of the Imitation of Christ. The author,...