Surprise Me!

So I started my morning off with breakfast huddled before my computer, 22 degrees outside and hot cocoa steaming in my cup. I was a little bored at the prospect of a same old day, looking at the same ol' internet sites, asking the same ol' questions and wanting just to feel even a small sense of a touch from God, when I said, "Ok God, surprise me!"

So I googled the words 'surprise me'.  And wow, the first entry said "Surprise Me – A 30-Day Faith Experiment" by Terry Esau.  That caught my eye, so 'click', I checked it out…

It's about a man who one day decided to do an experiment and for thirty days just pray a three word prayer, "Surprise me, God!"  He wrote in a journal how each day went. He wanted it to be a real, unscripted, reality account of his daily life for those thirty days. Then he wrote a book about his journey (and of course it's now a '40 Days of Purpose' type program, which is what the site is mostly selling).  But aside from that, it's the idea that he started with that gets me.

Surprise #2 — there was a link to a blog where someone had plugged in a song, which years ago I had seen as a kind of love song from God. Never mind that it's John Denver, it's the spirit of the words that count!

Surprise #3 –All the links to the blogs by people who took the 30-day challenge turned out to be worth the visit to the site, especially one I enjoyed reading:  jakesdad at http://jakesdad1234.blogspot.com/ ((Not responsible for content of other blogs–read at your own risk.))

Hmmm, now to our own experiment of life — but watch out when you say,

"Ok God, surprise me!"