Psalm 40

Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
but you have given me an open ear.
Burnt-offering and sin-offering
you have not required.
Then I said, ‘Here I am;
in the scroll of the book it is written of me.*
I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.’

Whatever the intent (if any) behind our creation, I expect we have been a surprise, sometimes happy, often not.

But whatever sort of surprise I recently caused, God is ready to embrace and welcome, forgive and redeem.

God will listen, if only I will pause to tell and in telling acknowledge my own intention and lack-of-attention.

Psalm 40 (Assigned for Good Friday)