Both Felicity and Serenity have been talking about this subject, so it is on my mind. And, I wonder if our perspective on it changes with the decades. I’m not sure the thought weighs on me very much anymore, but maybe it should.
Don’t get me wrong. I still want to DO lots of significant things in life. And I have great faith that God will enable me to accomplish all the works He has prepared beforehand for me to do.
But, today, I’m thinking of my friend, Sadie. When we first met, she was gasping for breath in my husband’s medical clinic. The ambulance was on its way, and I was standing there feeling pretty helpless. Just before the attendants wheeled her away to the hospital, I reached out and said, “Sadie, may I pray for you?”
I have no idea what I said. It was a brief moment in time not orchestrated, planned, or really even executed by me. It was just an urge, and I followed it.
Today, twenty years later, Sadie is a stalwart member of her local church. She is zealous in her ladies’ prayer group and faithful in her nearly-full-time ministry of sending cards and letters to all kinds of people (including us) on birthdays and anniversaries. And Sadie points back to that tiny prayer as the beginning of it all.
I think that is significant.