The words in my title come from a little online meditation piece I read from one of my favorite authors, Richard Rohr. Rohr is a Franciscan who founded and runs a Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, NM. I have been reading Rohr for a long time and still use a couple of his books in my classes. He is a Catholic who has taught this Quaker a great deal over time. Rohr always has a fresh way of putting things, even if I have thought about those things in my own way. He makes me twist my head---symbolic of twisting my mind---and pondering something in a different way. In a way the title of this little piece is evidence of that. I never thought about God as a Divine Ambusher! I don’t know that I would find that image for God in the Christian Bible, but I think the sense of the way God sometimes acts resonates with the title. Let’s look at how Rohr puts ...