Few of us are very happy when our carefully laid plans start to go off script. We cringe at emails marked "URGENT" from bosses, banks, doctors, or family members. Why now, we wonder, when we had just caught our breath? We can learn about navigating the unexpected from the Israelites in the Bible who escaped from slavery in Egypt--only to be rerouted through the desert for 40 years! (See the Bible book of Exodus)