Jose (from the movie, Bella): My Grandmother always used to say, If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
And how often do we pray with these intentions: we ask him incessantly to fulfill our plans, pave the way for our ideas to be known, make things happen when we think they should--and why? What insanity makes us think we know the best way things should be done? He need only say: be not anxious. For we are anxious about our lives, preserving our lives, keeping ahead of death's time, carefully protecting ourselves from giving too much away.
How often we make God laugh! My hope is that his laughter is that delighted joy of what he has in store for us. Perhaps the Spirit's work today is to interpret the bowl of prayers offered before the throne tomorrow so that God is always, figuratively speaking, one step ahead of us, knowing what we need vs what we ask for and making provision for us with a superabundance we didn't think to imagine yet.
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It is good to learn to live without expectations, and better to learn to live with hope. That's a paraphrase from Wendell Berry's "Hannah Coulter". I can't leave you with the exact quote because someone has borrowed my book! ;-)
And, yes, I do not think that we can imagine the superabundance that God has in store for us. As Thomas Chalmers said, "No matter what our vision is, it is too small."
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