LORD, please open my eyes

Last night, I read a prayer by Andrew Murray, asking GOD to help us to be alert to the things around us about which prayer is needed. I prayed that for myself, and today, failed my first test.

I was reading the sports page, and saw that a fan had fallen from the second deck at the Rangers game last night. Horrifying stuff.

""I looked up and saw him starting to come down. He hit the luxury box area and came straight down,'' Cleveland left fielder Trevor Crowe said. "It's one of the scariest things I've ever seen. All I could think about was to start praying for the guy. There was nothing to brace his fall or anything. I was just scared that he might have killed himself.''"

- AP

My thought was, "Crowe could just be saying that, but it sounds like he's a Christian. I'll have to look that up when I get home." (He is, by the way.)

I got home, and saw that Hobbitsister had sent me a link to the article, with this as her actual email: "cnn showed a shot of josh hamilton with his head down and eyes closed, and they said, "the players couldn't even bear to look". while i'm sure that was true, i didn't get the impression that that's why hamilton had his head down and eyes closed." I then also went to MLB.com to see if I could find more info on it.

I found a clip, and watched it. They showed Crowe bowed on the ground praying. It was at that point that I finally thought, "I wish I was better at having prayer be my first reaction like that." And then it hit me. I had not yet prayed for the man who fell. The morning after I asked GOD to help me be alert to things requiring prayer, I failed to pray when one fell into my lap.

And so, again, I ask the LORD to open my eyes to things around me. And I thank HIM for men and women like Trevor Crowe and Josh Hamilton, who, first of all, pray.