Even the Unresponsive Tapping Their Feet

A man's gift makes room

      for him

and brings him

   before the great.

           Proverbs 18. 16

My mother was

   an accomplished violinist,

but she didn't limit where

    God appointed her,

whether first chair in a symphony orchestra

    or playing in a rest home

    for the elderly.

Sometimes nurses mentioned

  they even saw unresponsive

  patients tapping their feet.

God grants each of us spaces

to use our gifts. abilities and talents 

   to serve Him and His Kingdom

in the most unlikely circumstances.

When we are faithful,

sometimes we don't even consider 

                or realize it.

May we unwrap and use

  our opportunities and gifts

  to love people today,

even the impossible ones.

Maybe especially them.

O LORD,

You have placed us strategically

and equipped us with gifts

not to hoard,

   but to share generously

with all those around us.

Make space for us

    to be used for Your designs

and grasp the eternal significance

           of being here and now.

Not just in what we are doing,

    but being Yours in this place.