Let God Interrupt Your Life

Before I joined the seminary, I studied computer science and and as part of that, I learned a lot of things. One thing that I learned was this concept called “System Interrupts”. System interrupts. Now, this sounds pretty nerdy and pretty technical and complicated, but it's actually very simple.

Now whenever we human users go to a computer and ask it to do something, it has to make a decision. It has to decide whether whatever we're asking it to do is more important than what it's already doing because a computer is doing a million different things in the background. We just never see it. And usually the answer is yes. The computer will allow itself to be interrupted.

And sometimes the the answer is actually no. It determines that whatever it's doing in the background is actually more important and that we can wait. And it can be frustrating, right? And and I think we all experienced that at some point when, for example, when we first turn on a computer and we try to open something, it doesn't open right away. And we're waiting and waiting. It can be frustrating.

And this same kind of concept of interrupts we see in the gospel readings throughout these past few weeks. We see God interrupting the lives of his people. We see that happening with Mary. You know, angel Gabriel comes and interrupts her life and says, "Guess what? Your life's about to change! You know, if you say yes, of course."

And the same thing with St. Joseph. He was ready to dismiss Mary quietly and then God comes and interrupts his plans. And we see the the fruits of that. We see that God blesses their their yes their openness to being interrupted.

So as we finish off this Christmas season and and also begin our new year, a question that we ought to ask ourselves is, are we allowing God to interrupt our plans, our lives? Or are we holding closely to our own plans?

If the answer is yes, if we ARE allowing God to interrupt, that's great because God's going to bless that. God's going to bring so much good out of that beyond your your wildest imagination. And if the answer is, “I don't know”, if I don't know if I'm I'm ready to let God interrupt my life, I guess the prayer there would be to ask God to give us the grace of trusting him.

Trusting that he is who he is, that he does love us and that his plan for us is much better than any plan we could come up for ourselves. that our plans are worthy of being interrupted. So today let's let that be our prayer, to allow God to interrupt our plans.

Give him that yes that “fiat” of our lady to say yes and trust him.