Sometimes expectations take me by surprise

It seems like nothing in our lives goes as expected.
I love the statement, “We plan and God laughs.”
Whether you believe in a higher power or not, you can probably think of a time or two when you thought nothing could go wrong, until it did.
Sometimes our expectations are emotional ones. The birth of a child brings us tremendous joy, until we think of what might have happened instead, and the tears fall. We go to a funeral expecting to wallow in our grief, and end up in a corner, lau