We all live in the tension between our plans and interruptions, our expectations and the unexpected, life as we want it to be and life as it happens. When our life plans are interrupted it is easy and tempting to work even harder to make it happen, reinforce our boundaries, blame others, rage about things not working out, or pray that God will make it all go the way we want. We often hold our plans and the interruption in opposition, as if it is one or the other. But what if it is always both? What if one is not necessarily better or more important than the other? What if we could be equally present to the plans and the interruptions? What if we trusted that God’s spirit was present and moving in both? Jesus is present and faithful to whatever and whoever is before him, whether planned or unexpected. What might be hidden at the intersection of your plans and the unexpected when your story meets God’s story?