Open to Uncertainty

Saturday in the First Week of Lent

If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there your hand will lead me
and your right hand hold me fast.
Psalm 139:8-9

As we enter the elevator, I realize that I do not know on which level we parked. Normally, this is the kind of thing I pay attention to and my spouse teases me a bit because he remembered when I did not.

Usually, I can be counted on to know where things are—misplaced keys, important papers, parked cars. It might be a super-power, or it might be a control need. Probably that depends on the context. I know in part it is simply that I like to know where I am.

As I continue my intentional journey of renewal in Lent, I understand that the way forward can be uncertain.  And that my own transformation depends on me being open to where the way opens before me. What is true is that wherever I am, I am in God’s care.