Speed is not the essence

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

The newspaper headline read, "Jockey Beats Horse Over Finish Line." The jockey beat the pack by twenty lengths and his horse by one length when he was catapulted out of the saddle and over the finish line. His horse, who had tripped, followed soon after. But the victory went to the second-place finisher..... A race official said that the jockey "was so far in front that only a freak accident would stop him,...and that's what happened."

Life is filled with [the] unpredictable.... Man is not the master of his destiny, as he so often thinks he is. [We need] to depend on the Lord who alone knows the end from the beginning.