During a recent virtual sobriety meditation meeting, I was sitting peacefully still as the chair played a beautiful piece of music he had carefully selected for us. Just as I was settling into that serene space, a YouTube ad unexpectedly blared through the speakers. The chair quickly scrambled to silence it, clearly frustrated, despite having tested the video beforehand. The interruption startled me, but what lingered was my concern for his serenity. I couldn’t stop thinking about how he must’ve felt embarrassed and disappointed. He had done the work to prevent the very thing that happened. But, as life tends to, things didn’t go according to plan.

That moment stirred up thoughts about the tension between control and surrender. I realized how often I am anticipating the other shoe to drop, trying to control everything, forgetting how little control I truly have. The chair’s experience reminded me that disruptions are just part of living. My faith has grown from blind trust, to lived experience, to evidential trust. But none of that could have happened without first surrendering. Just as that small disruption in the meeting became a reflection point for me, so too can all of life’s interruptions become opportunities to learn.

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