Jun 25: Expect the Unexpected

Rembrandt van Rijn or Jan Victors: Abraham and the Three Angels
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, c.1640

Saturday of the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

Reading I: Gen 18:1-15

The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’ Is anything too wonderful for the LORD? At the set time I will return to you, in due season, and Sarah shall have a son (NRSV, Gen 18:13-14)."

Father, how difficult it is for us to realize that you are always present to us and that you offer us your life and growth in it at every moment. Angels are messengers but we need no messenger to hear your Word that is always with us and through whom we are immediately in your presence.

Nothing, Father, is too wonderful for you and everything we are and have is gift. All is possible with you and all should amaze us.

Father, may be always be ready to accept the unexpected and, responding to it, allow you to forge in us a future that is truly new and which by your grace we can make our own.

Through Christ our Lord. Amen.