Parachute Prayer #31

Oh! This one so surprised and tickled me the other day—it’s a little silly, but a lot of fun! I have to share the idea with you.

I was taking our dog to the groomer. When I walked into the office, I was startled to see a good friend of the family’s slightly-older-than-teenage daughter sitting at the receptionist’s desk. (I was startled because I haven’t seen this girl in a few years, and she lives on the other side of the United States!) But it wasn’t really her, after all. They say everyone has a look-alike somewhere in this world. That day I met our friends’ daughter’s.

And God seemed to say, “Pray for her!”

So I did. I prayed for our friends’ daughter, then I prayed for her look-alike (all while trying to hand off an extremely wiggly and overly excited, wild puppy dog!). I didn’t know anything about the look-alike, but I asked God to make her as much like the girl I did know on the inside as on the outside because the girl I know is loving Christ and serving Him with all her heart each day.

When we see someone who reminds us of someone else, that’s a cue for a Parachute Prayer.

And while we’re praying for look-alikes, just for fun, why not pray for our own?! After all, they do say we all have one. (I don’t know who they are, but if they say it’s true, it could be so, don’t you think?--Okay, normally I'd tell you to check it out when they say it's true, to make sure it really is, but this is just for fun—no harm, no foul.)

Lord, please bless our look-alikes today—wherever they happen to be! If they don’t know you, please draw them into Your kingdom. And if they do, please bless them with an extra-close sense of Your loving Presence today. Thank You, Lord! Amen.