I didn't have the greatest day yesterday. Nothing major, but just a lot of little things that kept going wrong. Being on the other side of the world at the moment, I asked my friends back home to pray for me, which they graciously did.
That evening I got a lift back to my apartment with my colleague and his wife. As we arrived back, out of the blue, she invited me to join them for dinner that night. Now she didn't know that I had had a bad day, but for some reason (which I wholly believe to be God— despite the fact that she doesn't even believe in my God), some extra kindness and boldness bubbled up in her in the very moment I needed it and we had a great chilled evening eating curry and watching The Office and my bad day was made so much better.
So this all made me stop and think how many times I've ignored a prompting to be extra kind and/or bold in a moment, and how those were potentially moments created by the prayers of friends and family that I dropped the ball in. Maybe my kindness could answer prayers of people around me without me even knowing what those prayers are.
This isn't a fancy post or any wild revelation, but I just wanted to share these thoughts with you:
Number 1: who are you praying for today?
And number 2: are you being actively kind, even in the smallest of actions, in a way that God can use your kindness to answer prayers of the people you'll encounter?
Our God is extremely kind. Let's be wildly kind too.
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