The God of Infinite Surprises

Lord, you're the most unpredictable
person
I know.
Just when I think
I've finally begun
to figure you out,
you do something
so fantastic,
so completely, wildly
unexpected
that I'm knocked for a loop.

I think I know where to find you
and then suddenly I find you
in the most unlikely places;
at the oddest moments;
in the strangest people.

I think I know your voice;
and then I hear you
in a child's crooning lullaby;
in an old man's chuckle;
in a lover's sigh.

I think I know your face;
and then I see you
in a psychiatric ward;
in a jam-packed tenement;
in the streets,
wandering aimlessly.

I think I know you well;
and then I discover
I know you not at all.

I think I know your love;
and then I discover
I haven't begun to know it.

Thank you, Lord,
for being unpredictable.
Thank you for startling me
out of my comfortable rut.
Continue teaching me
that you're a God
of infinite surprises.

--Sue Garmon (Cited in Brennan Manning's Souvenirs of Solitude, pp. 37-38)

May this God of infinite surprises astonish and startle you this day. May your eyes be open to the surprising ways he speaks, looks and acts as you go throughout your day. Blessings