The most unexpected things happen when you thought you were ready for them. Shows what you know. There are times when you are carried on a high and beautiful wave, and you know exactly where you are, and you know exactly where you are going, but yet what is in you has less bearing than when you are totally lost — flying on a wing and a prayer, so high from the ground, is dizzier than lacking that ground, having no reference at all. Not to say it is not a joyful thing, this disorientation, for such delightful confusion is much of what makes life great. In fact, prepare for the best, at least sometimes, and you’ll find that the best in life can in no way be as you might prepare for. I think it is no mistake: Heaven, even on earthly terms, is not to be understood by mortal means. When God’s will is done (remember how we pray that it be done on Earth as it is in Heaven), you touch the infinite for the barest of fractions, so beyond you what joy is possible: why it is that angels must have wings to go into the Presence.
