MAY 12, 2026

  "Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.” 

― Jerry Spinelli

2 KINGS 4-5

10Elisha sent a messenger to say to him, “Go, wash yourself seven times in the Jordan, and your flesh will be restored and you will be cleansed.”11But Naaman went away angry and said, “I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God, wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. 12Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them and be cleansed?” So he turned and went off in a rage.

JOHN 4:1-30

19“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”21“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.23Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”26Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”

JOURNAL 

Expectations can quietly steal our lives. We become so convinced we know how things should unfold that when reality looks different, we miss what’s right in front of us. Naaman almost walked away from healing because it came in a way that felt too simple, too ordinary, too different from what he imagined. The Samaritan woman thought worship was about the right place and the right tradition, but Jesus revealed something deeper and far more personal.

We do the same thing every day. We script outcomes, relationships, careers, healing, even God Himself. We cling to the illusion that if we can just understand enough or control enough, we’ll finally feel safe. But life doesn’t work that way. God rarely follows our scripts.

Maybe peace comes when we stop demanding certainty and start trusting presence. Maybe the miracle isn’t in finally getting life to go according to plan, but in realizing God was already moving in ways we never expected.

Today is happening now. Not tomorrow. Not someday. And if we spend all our time trying to predict the future, we may completely miss the beauty, grace, and unexpected goodness waiting for us here in the present moment.

13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 

JOHN 4:13