Surprises

I'm not an easy person to surprise. My brain is always calculating what is going on and why. Anything out of the ordinary tends to get my attention. The picture is of a surprise birthday party that my daughter arranged for Marsha and I when we turned sixty. Our friends Donna and Bruce from Whitman had come to take us for a ride and that was a little unusual. It was close to our birthdays and I thought this is fishy but we went for the ride. When her cell phone rang with an excuse to get back to church I said oh a surprise party in Marsha's ear. I went along with the surprise though. I like to be surprised so I don't know why I spend so much energy to make sure I'm not. Go figure. The picture is of those from my side of the family that came to the party. Life is surprising all by itself. Planning is both needed and useless all at the same time. When you think you have life all laid out in some sort of order, you better look for monkey wrench. Some of those unplanned circumstances are welcome and some are not but life will bring them anyway. Adjust your life and go on. Sometimes that's easy and sometimes it is not, but adjust and go on is the only real choice. We might put the going on part off for a while and sit in limbo, but eventually it is go on. The alternative is to try to continue to live in yesterday but God does not live in yesterday. We can collect what we want to bring from yesterday and make sure we don't lose it as we go on, but God moves on available only in today. I like God's surprises so much that today is where I choose to live. I'm looking God for the next surprise but your surprises I never see coming.