"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God."

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

There is a version of the day that goes according to plan. We know what we intend to do, who we expect to encounter, what we hope to feel. Self-will runs quietly in the background, arranging things, keeping the schedule. Interruptions—the unexpected phone call, the conversation that takes longer than it should, the moment that arrives uninvited—register as problems.

But some of what matters most may arrive precisely as interruption. The person who needed to be heard. The feeling that broke through without warning. The moment that stopped us long enough to notice something we had been walking past. Whatever we name as larger than ourselves may not work on our schedule. It may show up sideways, in the gaps between what we had planned.