Extraordinary Things in Unlikely Places

 

If your enemy is hungry,

   give him bread to eat,

and if he is thirsty,

   give him water to drink,

for you will heap

     burning coals on his head,

and the LORD will reward you.

               Proverbs 25. 21-22

(What if we viewed

       this difficult situation

       or difficult person

                         differently,

   not as hardship or struggle,

   but as an opportunity

        to practice grace?

Take others by surprise.

Grace is always unexpected,

         and never wasted.

May others be amazed

      by what happens

    and how God uses it.

Who lives like that?

           The faithful.)

O LORD,

Helps us to not be resistant,

         nor impervious,

   but responsive to circumstances.

Align our hearts with Yours

  that we would be aware

  of hurts and wounds

     that cause people

         to be irritable

         or adversarial.

Fill our hearts and pockets

   with incredible grace

that we would be generous,

even when we have every reason

                         not to,

in order to honor You

           in unlikely places

and point others to You.