It takes you by surprise
It comes in odd packages
It sometimes looks like loss
Or mistakes
It acts like rain
Or like a seed
It’s both reliable and unpredictable
It’s not what you were aiming at
Or what you thought you deserved
It supplies what you need
Not necessarily what you want
It grows you up
And lets you be a child
It reminds you you’re not in control
And that not being in control
Is a form of freedom
—Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Reprinted from Weavings: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual Life July/August 2002, Vol. XVII, No. 4. Copyright 2002 by Upper Room Ministries. Used by permission. For more information about ordering Weavings call 1-800-925-6847.
