Serendipity

Serendipity (n): the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also: an instance of this

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The collect from this morning (Advent One, Year C, BCP):

Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal; through him who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

From the (new for Advent!) opening sentences of Morning Prayer Rite I, a super-abbreviated version of which I did this morning before church:

Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3

Noted so I can remember. It's funny how the tiniest bits of Scripture can be as loud as thunderclaps, and it's funny how taking notice can so sharply change the volume of our own noise. How much less dire the dire becomes when we let God choose the shape of it, and how much less passive we're made when, paradoxically, we submit.

Phenomenons for which I'm profoundly grateful.