What we want, what we think we need, is so different than what life brings us. There is a great, fertile open invitation in this gap, this place between what I am asking for and what I seem to be receiving.
My daughter once called it ‘the aching chasm.’
We can learn to ask for something else, we can learn to pray from a bolder place inside us, a place of deep trust in life, that doesn’t need anything to be different than it is.
It might take us a long time to get to this place, to rest in this unconditional gratitude. It’s not a familiar place for the mind.
It’s where the grace pours down, its where the smallest things are appreciated.
Where a drop of kindness feels like a whole ocean.
God give us rain when we expect sun.
Give us music when we expect trouble.
Give us tears when we expect breakfast.
Give us dreams when we expect a storm.
Give us a stray dog when we expect congratulations.
God play with us, turn us sideways and around.
(Leunig)
