...for I have sent them.

                  Acts 10. 20

(Aware of daily

          divine appointments)

O LORD,

You have placed people in my life today,

those who are familiar to me,

those who are total strangers,

those whom I love,

those with whom I struggle,

even in what only appears

        as casual encounters

      or momentary meetings,

the expected and unexpected,

not one is

       an insignificant rendezvous.

Turn, I pray,

confrontations into conversations,

mere contacts into relationships,

                    all for Your glory.

No one slides randomly in or out of my life,

within my view or on my path,

--neighbors, colleagues,

  even the clerk at the store--

          but only by divine appointments,

                         only by Your hand.

I have no idea

           who I will meet today.

    But You arranged it all.

Please make me

extraordinarily aware of those around me

and love them into Your kingdom.