I’m on vacation this week and spent the day yesterday mowing and doing lawn work. I didn’t have enough gas left for the next mowing, so I hooked up my trailer to my garden tractor, loaded up several plastic gas containers and headed for town. On the way, I was thinking about what to post on this blog today. I was out of ideas.

At the Shell station in Waterloo, I finished filling up my containers and was putting the caps back on them when I heard the guy on the other side of the pump stumble and fall. He was a businessman in a suit and tie, about 50. I think he tripped over the hose. He got up, holding his arm and saying, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God.” Sure enough, he broke his arm. They called the EMS. I really didn’t see it happen and couldn’t do more to help the poor guy, so I rode on back home. But I had something to pray about.

Sometimes the real prayer needs are right in front of us, totally unplanned. If God arranges for us to be there when a crisis occurs, we should expect that God has a plan for us.

Have you recently found yourself in the middle of someone else’s crisis? What did you do?

Tags: crisis, help