Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives.

Advent Day #6 - and the quote for today is from Enuma Okoro:
"Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though God’s character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference between arbitrariness and unpredictability."

And then Pastor Michael asked us, additionally:
"When you think of your life, do you expect you know where it’s leading? Where are you now; did you expect to be here?"

To which I replied to him, looking for the link today (yesterday's was The Wiz):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOH6SzDX3l4

And that was an interesting connection for me (to cross blogs) since that was our 9th grade graduation song from Masterman.  But Michael also asked us to consider the twists and turns that our lives take, taking us on paths we would have never considered.  And, to connect back to 9th grade, I thought I would always go to Central, as my grandfather did, but I stayed at JRMHS.  I never thought I would attend Penn, but I did.  And those two decisions greatly have affected the rest of my life.  I often wonder if, in the after-life, we can sit and view decisions we have made and how our lives would be changed if we had done this instead of that......will always be a wonder for me.  Not a regret, but a wonder.  And wondering, now, what twists and turns are forthcoming.

The Psalm today (16) is the Song of Trust and Security in God.  I like that thought since, when we do not know where our paths may lead, faith and trust is often what we need to lean on.