Well, I’m not sure how this is all going to pan out, but I know one thing—it will pan out.

“What will pan out?”

I just told you—this.

“This what?”

This or that—what has to pan out. Whatever you’re talking about.

“What do you mean by panning out anyway?”

I think that the expression comes from panning for gold. You know shaking gold-laden water around in a pan. When it pans out you get some.

“Oh.”

Well, you see as a Christian—everything in the long run always pans out. We’re in it for the gold. And, thankfully, life is not uncertain like it was for those who panned for gold in “them thar hills” (which were in N.W. Georgia).