Lord, you’re the most unpredictable person I know.

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 im 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 childs crooning lullaby;

in an old man’s chuckle;

in a lovers 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 comfort rut.

Continue teaching me

that you’re a God

of infinite surprises.

Brennan Manning in “Souvenirs of Solitude”