By Hannah Brencher

I often pray that God would make me attentive. On high alert for the people he needs me to see.

One morning, I prayed a prayer in my journal:

“Dear God, will you show me someone who needs me today?”

I’m a frequent pray-er of this prayer.

I sat there for a moment, looking at the prayer, and then felt a nudge in my spirit to change it—to shift one word that would completely change the entire prayer.

“Dear God, will you show me someone who needs You today?”

I think it’s my ego that wants to be needed by other people.

It’s a constant reorientation to put my ego behind God and realize that people need God a lot more than they need me.

That same day, I met a woman who told me...read more