...to make ready for the Lord

        a people prepared.

                  Luke 1. 17

(Who has God placed before

          each one of us?

There are no random encounters

   but only divine appointments.

It is not in us,

                  but God

who uses us to love others

           right into His arms.

Not just by our words and actions

       and attitudes in unlikely places

              or messy relationships,

but grace embedded,

      forgiveness generously sowed,

      and saturated in prayer.

God uses our praying

               to soften hearts,

    including our own.)

O Lord,

In what appears a hard place

     and among impossible people,

help us to be faithful to You,

to bring Your name there

   in what You are redeeming,

   even beyond what we can grasp.

Help us to not see

          a problem to be solved,

          or others to be fixed,

but people to love.

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