Wednesday Word . . . Surprises
Generally speaking, I am not fond of surprises. I won’t go into the psychology of why that may be, but it’s enough to know that they tend to make me nervous. Every so often, though . . .
That was the case this past Sunday evening when I got a text from a former parishioner in Maryland who said, “Hey, we’re finally making that trip out west and will be in Buffalo on August 26. Wondering if we can meet up.”
Unfortunately the 26th is a busy day for us as we have to get Joelene’s mother up to Billings to fly back home. But after several back and forth messages with suggestions and negotiations, we finally found a time for us to meet up for a bit before they continued their journey.
I suppose there are good surprises and bad surprises, and we all have our own definitions of each. For instance, my car dying on the move out here was most definitely a bad surprise, but that bad surprise led to a number of good surprises – one of which was having dinner with Joelene at a great bbq restaurant in Pierre.
There is good and bad in everything. Some days are by the book and follow the plans, other days are full of surprises. Sometimes, I suppose, we go through the day not seeing the surprises in front of us.
Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration, when the disciples saw Jesus transfigured on the mountain and appearing with Moses and Elijah. I’m sure that was a huge surprise for them. I also think that, as they looked back on that event, they saw things with new eyes.
Keep your eyes open for good surprises. Allow yourself to be surprised by little things, as well as big things. And maybe, just maybe, those little surprises will lead us to see things with new eyes.
Blessings,
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