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Date: 27 January 2006 17:22:00
Thats one of my favourite sayings. But it was definately refreshed to me today. Yesterday, when I was expecting the responsibility, it never happened. Today, I wasn't expecting it, and it did happen. Well, to an extent. We had an exciting/scary emergency situation. But, I was quite proud - i kept my cool, and did everything that needed to be done, without panicking. My insides were majorly excited and jumping around all over, but I think i remained calm on the outside and acted quickly and efficiently.
God's like that. He always acts in suprising, unexpected ways. When I was doing my confirmation lessons with a minister from home, she asked me to write a list of words that described Jesus. The word at the top of my list was 'surprising'. The minister was quite surprised that it had been the first thing that I thought of. But, from a young age, i could never understand why Jesus' followers were still surprised, after 3 years of Him doing surprising things? Why were they still surprised by them. Why didn't they expect them? I suppose its easy for me to say that now, with hindsight. For example, I've always known that Jesus rose again on the third day, but if I had been there when it happened, then I wouldn't have expected it. The minister fully agreed with me, that Jesus always acts in unexpected ways. And she recommended to 'Always Expect the Unexpected', with God, life, everything. Its good advice.