If you took a trip from San Fransisco to Hawaii aboard a 747 jet with hundreds of other people, you might be appalled to know who was operating the airplane. It is not the pilot but a couple of black boxes referred to as Fred and George. Fred is a Gizmo that knows, at every moment, exactly where the airplane is and where it is supposed to be. George is the autopilot. He moves the controls that guide the airplane, speeds it up, or slows it down. He and Fred talk to each other constantly. If their conversations war in English, it would be something like this:
Fred: "George, we're off course two degrees to starboard."
George: "Okay Fred, I'll fix it."
This conversations continues the entire flight, and guide the plane to within a thousand yards of the runway and within 5 minutes of the scheduled arrival time. The incredible thing is not so much the accuracy of Fred and Goerge, but that the airplane has been in error 90% of the time during its flight, yet still lands on target and on schedule! The secret is that George made thousands of error in guiding the airplane. For each error, Fred called a correction and George corrected. The flight line was made up of thousands of small jogs that crisscrossed the ideal straight flight line and still put the airplane at it's destination. A rocket destined for the moon travels in exactly the same way. The secret to getting to the destination is simply correction. To be in life means we are constantly off course. What is important is not that we are off course, but whether we make the necessary correction.

If you took a trip from San Fransisco to Hawaii aboard a 747 jet with hundreds of other people, you might be appalled to know who was operating the airplane. It is not the pilot but a couple of black boxes referred to as Fred and George. Fred is a Gizmo that knows, at every moment, exactly where the airplane is and where it is supposed to be. George is the autopilot. He moves the controls that guide the airplane, speeds it up, or slows it down. He and Fred talk to each other constantly. If their conversations war in English, it would be something like this:
Fred: "George, we're off course two degrees to starboard."
George: "Okay Fred, I'll fix it."
This conversations continues the entire flight, and guide the plane to within a thousand yards of the runway and within 5 minutes of the scheduled arrival time. The incredible thing is not so much the accuracy of Fred and Goerge, but that the airplane has been in error 90% of the time during its flight, yet still lands on target and on schedule! The secret is that George made thousands of error in guiding the airplane. For each error, Fred called a correction and George corrected. The flight line was made up of thousands of small jogs that crisscrossed the ideal straight flight line and still put the airplane at it's destination. A rocket destined for the moon travels in exactly the same way. The secret to getting to the destination is simply correction. To be in life means we are constantly off course. What is important is not that we are off course, but whether we make the necessary correction.