Here I am Lord

     I wrote on our blog about how on the trip down to St Pete we were asked for help on several occasions. While I am used to Danny being approached, I am seldom approached. We joke about Danny being a magnet for that. Often times on family trips, I will look around and Danny is handing some stranger some money or pumping gas into someone's car that asked for help. Although Danny got asked for money this trip as well, I too got asked.  Danny often says he dosn't care what is going on in that person's life, but that it is a test of our heart to see if we will give or help out in some way.
  I had gotten out of my car and had caught the eye of the lady beside us and I smiled as her son was playing. I began to do the gas pump routine when she approached me with her gas can. She said in a pleading voice, will you please give me some gas, I am trying to visit my sister and I am afraid I will run out of gas. The lady was a Hindu, she had on a dress, and had the dot between her eyes. I had recently studied of Hindus and I also have a co-worker that schooled me as well on the culture as she was a Christian from India. The lady asking for gas, referenced God alot and repeatedly asked for God's blessings on me. I gave her some gas and she spoke more blessing toward me.
   As I got in my car and contemplated on this, I was surprised at all the need we had encountered on the way down and wondered if this was any indication for what we were gonna experience in St .Pete. I have heard and read about all the homeless here and I know we will experience the dire straights and need here as well. I began to think of the lady and wondered did she believe in the one true God, our God. I know that Hindus believe in many God's, but my hope was that she was talking of our God.
I also read somewhere that Hindu's believe the eyes are windows to the soul and I wondered if when she looked in my eyes she saw Christ, and a hope that she reached out for. I so wished I could have witnessed to her or prayed with her, but it happened so fast.  If nothing else it helped me to know and take inventory of myself that I need to be more ready for anything..... ready to pray, ready to speak your word, ready to give your hope that others are looking for so desperately.
Here I am Lord, send me.....(Isaiah 6:8)
With your help Lord, I am ready to do your work, I want to do your work. I pray I can represent you well and be a light to a needy world out there.
Please pray for me that I can find the balanced needed to not only minister to my family and be what they need but to also minister for the Lord to that one person out there who may need hope.