Thinking back in Life

Lately I've been thinking a lot about different friends from my past. Friends I haven't seen in a long time. And I wonder how they are doing, what is going on in their lives. A lot of times when I'm thinking about someone I haven't seen in a while, it's God's way of telling me to pray for them and I do. This has been something that I found out later something had happened to a particular friend and they needed the love of God really badly in their lives. Or they needed a friend to call them up and just encourage them. It's always been this way for me. I just love how this is one way God uses me and I'm grateful for this. Even though my heart becomes heavy as I think about them, I know that the mere fact that I'm praying for them is a good enough thing because it is something that they need. I love love love how God takes this into account. I love how he is shaping me and making me a better person and it's not me doing all of it. This mere fact is the reason that with God I'm everything, without him, I'm nothing!