How do we know where we are going, not only physically, but intellectually and spiritually as well?  The writer of Proverbs 16:9 offers an intriguing take on this dilemma.  "The mind of a human plans his way," he suggests, "but the Lord guides his steps."
     What does this mean?  Are we robots, pawns in the hands of God, creatures absent of free will?
     None of us would like to think so.  We make plans, we dream dreams, we conjure visions of what we want to do.  Then, if all seems good, we proceed.  Yet we do not do it in a vacuum.  If we did, we would only know what we see . . . and we all know that what we see is not all there is to "see."
     Robots we are not, beings we are.  Like the God who made us.