God, please make me awesome

I went to the dentist yesterday and spent several hours getting a couple of crowns. Not fun, but as old fillings give way, and molars crack, it is what’s needed. My dentist is a Christian. I can’t recall the first conversation we had when we shared our hearts and both recognized we were sisters in Christ. We are on a first name basis. It’s odd, in a good kind of way. I don’t think I have ever called a doctor or dentist by their first name. We share stories about family and life. Her children are younger and we talk about God’s hand in the challenges and struggles. We also revel in His goodness and in our prayers for them. We offer each other encouragement.

Our conversations aren’t long, obviously, as the majority of my time is spent in the dentist chair with instruments in my mouth. Somehow though, we manage some deep conversations. We open up and share hearts. There is vulnerability. Vulnerable hearts, create relationship. The staff in her office are just the same – kind, open and vulnerable. We chat about faith and life. You really can’t separate the two. They are interwoven.

Vulnerable hearts, create relationship

The dentist shared with me yesterday one of her prayers. “God, please make me awesome.” She asks God to help her be the best dentist she can be, to serve her patients as best she can. Wow, I love that!! What a cool prayer, to be made awesome by the One who calls us to serve. Whether our service happens in a dentist chair, in our family, in our work place, in volunteer positions, or with the strangers we meet in our everyday lives, don’t we want to serve awesomely?

God, please make us awesome. Make us awesome servants – the kind that serve unselfishly, the kind that pour their heart out on your people, the kind that love well. Help us be awesome at kindness, patience, compassion, gentleness, tenderness and mercy. Help us be a fountain of grace, a grace that originates from you, and pours out onto others. Let us shower your people Lord, with your goodness and help us be vulnerable and share our hearts. God please makes us awesome! Amen.