Making Room for the Unexpected

God of Holy Interruptions,

Some gifts arrive in forms I would not have chosen.

They disrupt my schedule.Complicate my expectations.Ask more of me than I thought I could give.

Mary received a word that was full of promise, but the promise would also alter the life she had imagined.

She asked an honest question.

Then she answered with γένοιτο (genoito).

May it happen.May Your word be fulfilled in me.

Her surrender was not passive. It was the courageous consent of someone willing to let Your purpose rearrange her plans.

Teach me that kind of openness.

Keep me from rejecting what is unfamiliar simply because it is inconvenient.

At the same time, give me discernment. Not every interruption is an assignment. Not every unexpected opportunity carries Your direction.

Help me listen long enough to recognize the difference.

When You place something before me that I did not plan, quiet the part of me that immediately measures it against my preferences.

Show me what this moment might require.Show me what it might produce.Show me how Your grace will meet me within it.

I confess that I often want blessings that fit neatly into the life I have already arranged.

But some of Your deepest gifts first appear as disruptions.

Give me a willing spirit when Your invitation is clear.

Let my response be neither careless acceptance nor fearful resistance, but thoughtful surrender.

I may not understand everything Your word will ask of me.

Still, if this is from You, make room within me to receive it.

Amen.