At Gibeon,

the LORD appeared

  to Solomon in a dream

  by night,

and God said,

“Ask what I shall give you.”

               1 Kings 3. 5

(And how do we respond 

           to God?

God provides far beyond 

   what we ask, imagine,

   far exceeding what 

         we think we need

          or He can do.

This is what God does

            to an ordinary life,

because in His eyes,

      no one is ordinary 

and nothing is insignificant.)

O LORD,

We come before You,

    astonished by how 

    You love us,

how You transform,

how You redeem everything       around us,

and how You use even us

          for Your glory.

Grant us Your wisdom

      and understanding 

even right where 

   You have strategically put us,

every seamless detail,

nothing random in Your steps,

no interruptions

       but divine appointments,

even in what 

    we will never see.

Help us to be faithful to You

    in all things today

    for Your glory,

                not ours,

in big things and small,

because nothing is small

          in Your Kingdom

or in our relationship with You.