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A Prayer for the Headlines for July 25, 2011

Good Morning, God
Lord, one little "random act of kindness" probably will never make a headline.  Some one person helping out some one other person with a much-needed gift of a couple a hundred in cash won't be shared with the world - and it probably should not be.  Your word instructs us to give humbly, not in order to gain recognition but just because someone has a need of what we have.  Your word instructs us to give in secret, so secretively, in fact, that our right hand does not even know what our left hand is doing.  Your word does say that when we do a random act of kindness for someone in need we do such act for Jesus . . . and Jesus himself will say "thank you".  In fact, Jesus will say "as you did it to the least of these, you did it unto me".  Did what, Lord?  As you saw someone hungry and fed them.  As you saw someone naked and clothed them. As you saw a stranger and welcomed them.  As you saw someone thirsty and gave them something to drink.  As you saw someone sick or in prison and visited them.  These were your random acts of kindness that you did as unto me.  Well done!
In Jesus name, Amen

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