...look with your eyes,

and hear with your ears,

and set your heart upon

  all that I shall show you,

for you were brought here

   in order that

   I might show it to you.

                   Ezekiel 40. 4

(Nothing random in this

                 at all,

  but His sacred appointments,

brought about for

     God's profound purposes,

divinely and strategically positioned

    to know Him more

    and to make Him known,

to obey in place,

to seek God not just for the next,

          but serve Him in the now.)

O LORD,

Fulfill Your purposes today

in every divine appointment,

in every encounter

     even in what appears ordinary.

Please help us to

         set our hearts on You,

   not mired by circumstances,

   but responsive to You in them.

Even in mystery,

even in what I cannot know,

   Your purposes prevail,

   You, O LORD,

               are redeeming.