What if we
could in fact be
surprised by hope?
Instead of anxiety
planning for what could go wrong
to prevent the worst case scenario
what if we could hope
in divine optimism
for how it could go
better than we ever expected?
better than we could have ever imagined?
For being a self-proclaimed optimist,
with my so-called grown-up realism
(really the world's cynicism)
I have begun to lose my audacity to dream
and therefore to pray
for the Best Ever. I temper
my prayers, mitigating the disaster
of the opposite-of-glory for God,
by asking for realistic, doable,
possible, conceivable...
But as an older child fears
they'll be replaced by a new baby's arrival,
only to meet it and find overwhelming joy
and divine pleasure smiling down on them
in teeny baby features--
so could we open our hearts
to be blown away and surprised
by the best Good we never dared imagine?
©Ellen H.
“[God] is able to do
immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.” (Ephesians 3:20)
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