Unexpecteds

Unexpecteds...is that a word? 

Maybe I can make it a word.

It's a word that describes what has been going on the past couple of weeks.

Unexpecteds

You know those things that take your breath away

Either because it is so wonderful or so awful.

Things you were not expecting.

Because I'm a Glass-Half-Full Person I'll share a neat unexpected first

Just look at that view!  Amazingly beautiful!

This is the view from the door at my workplace.

How could I have missed this view?

I've been walking past this lilac daily and missing the beauty

until one day I really looked

and I saw the unexpected right in front of me.

Tiny bursts of color gathered in a flower bundle

and oh the smell!

Delightful

Powerful

Amazing

An unexpected gift from the Creator on a day my head was low.

I might have missed the glorious purple

had I not looked up.

The Husband's dad has been hospitalized since May 14.

Once independent he is now unable to stand by himself

and cannot walk without help of a walker.

Totally unexpected he fell in his apartment and lay for hours

unconscious.

It is truly a miracle that he is alive.

Unexpected words came flying by us

Kidney failure

Heart condition

Rhadomyolysis

Pacemaker

Hours in the hospital

Cheering an 88-year-old in the will to live

Unexpecteds

Some are good and some are not so good

The Chocolate Fairy left me a Ghiradelli chocolate on my desk today

No one fessed up to leaving it for me

so I'm thanking the Chocolate Fairy!

It was a great unexpected for me today

I'm hoping that Fairy flies by my desk again soon!

Like I said, some unexpecteds are good and some are not so great

What I do know for certain

What I do know as truth

is Proverbs 18:10 is like a breath of fresh air

Sometimes the not-so-great unexpecteds get me down

They overwhelm me

My head hangs low and I can even miss this

But oh that Proverb has become a close friend to me

"The NAME of the Lord is a STRONG TOWER;

the righteous run to it and are safe."

No matter what unexpecteds are going on in your life

Know that the Lord is near and what a safe place He is.

I know!

I've been running to Him these past weeks.

He is not unexpected

He is faithful.

He is good.

He is my Strong Tower

My Strength

Unexpecteds

I'm learning they are helping me to trust God more and more

Lord, thank you for the unexpecteds in my life!