Greetings dear friends!
This week, I've been thinking about the times in my life when I thought I knew best, and when God showed me just how wrong I was. Those times when something I wanted with my whole heart didn't work out, in order that something better, more beautiful, more wonderful, could.
Maybe it was a friendship or relationship, a situation or opportunity at school or work. Think about those times when you were momentarily disappointed, even angry with God, only to have God show up in an unexpected way.
This week, in our Gospel reading from Mark (8:31-38), Peter thinks he knows best. Jesus foretells His death and resurrection and Peter tries to set Jesus straight. How many of us have had a similar conversation with God? Telling God how we want things to turn out, how we want things to look. I imagine God grinning, shaking God's head and laughing at how silly God thinks we must be.
I think many times we miss how God flips things on their heads for our sake because we're so caught up on what we thought it was going to look like, what we thought was going to happen. How we played God and told God how we wanted our life to play out. But friends, we can't live in that disappointment or frustration with God. When we do that, we miss those Holy plot twists, those Holy interruptions where God is bringing us to something more wonderful than we could ever have imagined.
This week, I encourage you to think of the Holy plot twists in your lives and thank God for showing you that you didn't know best.
Sending my love to you all.
