A Prayer for Surprises
You take a nap in the middle of the day—a luxury and necessity—and awaken to a rainbow outside your hotel window, waiting for you to open your eyes. Photo by Rev. Johnny Ray Simon
What happens when you wake up in the morning and ask, “God, surprise me today?”
You meet friends in the lobby—the kind you didn’t know you needed—and soon enough, dinner is planned. The evening overflows with laughter and stories that are both longer than expected and never quite long enough.
You are invited to serve, with room and board included, as if God wanted to ensure your presence with nowhere else to be.
You find yourself watching the World Series Soccer game in a restaurant, surrounded by strangers who, for ninety minutes, become your community. You cheer together, and that moment counts as belonging.
At the lunch table, someone slides an invitation your way: a hundred words for a hundred and fifty dollars. You didn’t anticipate it, but God did.
You take a nap in the middle of the day—a luxury and necessity—and awaken to a rainbow outside your hotel window, waiting for you to open your eyes.
Finally, quieter than all else, God calls you toward someone unexpected—not as an assignment or a ministry moment, but simply as love given to a heart that needs it.
This is what happens when you ask.
