God of the unexpected,
You place the paths before us, and us on the path.
Is it you too who put the unexpected in place? The roadblocks? The rough road? The manhole cover out-of-place?
Sometimes I suspect, it is you. And sometimes it’s less-than-easy to be grateful for the hard stuff that we couldn’t see coming.
Yet the way to roll the stone away, to fill the hole, to pull the manhole cover to its proper home is precisely by saying ‘thank you’. Not with the tongue only, but with the heart.
As in: How did this happen?
How did this get here?
How did we get into this mess?
This sucks. And still, thank you.
Thank you dear God, living and working in unexpected places.
Amen
[Photo: Marcelo Colmenero]
Believe it. 