Sun Tzu Chapter 1 – Title (Sun Tzu Chapter 1 – Title) (Psalm 120; 55; Hebrews 11)
It’s now the title comes to play,
For calculation rules the day –
Surveying as one lays the plans;
Appraisal helps one understand.Big picture (that is, strategy),
Though still an estimate it be,
Is top-down thought about the plan,
Before one ever leaves his land.“What is our situation here
(Like CNN)?” It would appear
Appreciation of the fix,
Assists in estimation-pix.Preliminary reckoning,
Initial odds – “What’s beckoning
Us factor in as choice is made?
Let’s think it through ’fore plans are laid.”No academic exercise,
For under this an action lies;
As essence of a tone of thought –
We're thinking, “Will we go or not?”But when we stand back, look again,
“Affecting odds” depicts our game,
For if new factors are applied,
Sometimes such factors turn the tide.There’s tone of action from the start;
“En guard” runs through assessment part;
Offensive and defensive stance
Both need to ask, “What is our chance?”If either side can see a way
To shift the odds, thus win the day,
It’s best to know this from the first –
Upgrade perspective from the worst.Few factor in celestial tone –
Won’t leave the man of peace alone;
Betray the covenant of love
Thank God for resource from above.Sometimes we find God intervenes;
Sometimes we walk alone it seems;
But faith is there what e’er betide,
So factor in as you decide.navigation