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Pay Attention!

The Lord has been renewing my awareness of opportunities He presents. Even opportunities that don't show up until I obey a simple nudge. I'm looking around, taking nothing as coincidence, or inconvenience. Expecting that every interaction will have eternal value. Making myself available, waiting for that opportunity to appear.

So, stepping outside my house with my four kids, I look around, waiting. Having no real sense of direction, but knowing I was nudged to be here, I head down my street. Immediately my neighbor comes outside with her son and mother-in-law. After a walk and a sad conversation with my neighbor, I know who needs payer tonight. We say our good-byes and the mother-in-law, in a whisper, makes a sincere appeal for prayer for her burdened daughter-in-law. "She doesn't know the Lord; she doesn't have Him in her heart."

So, I'm sobered that I could so easily have missed that. I probably have a thousand times before.

Which neighbor needs YOUR prayer?