dailydatewithgod

If there is anything that is going to keep me from being able to see it is my limited perspective.  It is not whether or not something is physically within my sight or in my mind of imagination.  It is about my openness to possibilities extending beyond what I can come up with on my own.  We assign particular functions and ideas of how things are expected to be.  When they operate outside of that we are either disappointed or surprised.  We even have a word for something stepping outside its function, malfunction. Learning to notice where the unexpected function presented itself happens within my heart.  It is the core of who we are which can unlock the limitations that our minds place around the functions of things in our life.  We have prescribed functions for things, people, roles, events, and so on.  When something steps outside its expected function we tend to think it is wrong instead of holding the possibility that it is here to show us how we can limit ourselves without realizing it.  We are fascinated when a spy in a movie uses a shoe to make a phone call or a ring to spray a toxin and defeat the villain.  Why is noticing how saying the wrong thing in the wrong environment opened up a conversation that would not have happened had it not been sparked.  Stepping outside the expected function opens up avenues we did not know were there. By paying attention to the nudging of our hearts of when to operate within or outside a function we are surrendering to what might be possible outside our realm of what we know.  God invites us to be surprised by life by being open to the opportunities presented by a malfunction.