My Upper Room

In this season of Lent I've made a conscious effort to work on three areas of my life:

1. my cursing (although I gave this up for new years it's still been hard in this work environment)
2. my desire for soda (particularly diet coke)
3. my tolerance level (this sort of goes along side my cursing but it's to a whole deeper level. I think I have a tolerance level of -1111111111111111, and with my new "boss" it becomes harder ever day/minute/hour that I'm around her)

So keeping in line with #'s 1 and 3 I decided to write about something that happened to me the other day. I read a daily devotional called "The Upper Room" and after an incident earlier this week I started writing my own entry in my head. I don't have a bible verse for it yet, but I do have all the other aspects (I'm still working on the title). So here goes:

Title: If nothing else - Pray

The other day my city had a major snow storm. Many roads were impossible to drive, schools were closed, the streets were a pedestrians nightmare. As usual I was running late for work and was scurrying to catch my bus when I saw a commotion on my street. Apparently a woman had slipped on some ice and fell. There were a few people who had stopped to help her - one or two even on their cell phones reaching out to the police and ambulance. The entire scene reminded me of an accident I had about four years ago where even though I was with friends, the pedestrians on the street got me the help that I needed. Unfortunately because of my rush to get into the office I didn't stop and offer the Christian assistance that I felt inclined to give. I felt awful and ashamed. In that moment I cleared my head and decided to pray. I offered a prayer of help, of healing and of forgiveness. Because I know that God understood my need to not stop and help I felt my prayer had been magnified. Although I'm not able to call the woman who was injured that day, I know the power of my prayers made a positive difference.

Prayer: Lord thank you for the power, healing and comfort of prayer.

Prayer Focus: struggling Christians