By Yong Soo Li

On 29 July morning, my husband Michael and I were heading to the hospital for his second cardiac rehabilitation session. About two months before, he suffered a mild heart attack, resulting in a number of follow up appointments and exercise sessions.

Six months prior, Michael’s vertigo recurred after 15 years. After two car rides in heavy traffic and on a route with many traffic lights, he felt queasy in his stomach, which then triggered a near full-blown vertigo. So, when friends offered to drive us for hospital visits, we decided going by the MRT was ‘safer’ though each ride was 27 minutes long and the chances of having a seat among the morning office crowd were slim. Learning not to worry, I would ask the Lord for a seat for Michael. Each time, the Lord provides.

That morning, we entered the packed train at the station near our home. No vacant seat. We stood in front of a gentleman in a corner seat, dressed in working clothes and likely in his 50s. He looked up at Michael briefly, then back at his mobile screen. We got ready to do our own reading on our mobiles. Moments later, he got up and kindly offered his seat to Michael!

I was amazed. Michael got a seat! I wondered what went on in this gentleman’s mind? What moved him to give up his seat to someone not so elderly or physically needy? It must be the Lord!

The Lord cares and attends to our needs – such amazing goodness, such abundant power. The day’s devotional reading from Our Daily Bread based on Daniel 10 consolidated a life lesson behind my uplifting experience: Even though I cannot see God, my life is surrounded by proof of His loving watchfulness. I cannot see God until I go to Him and receive new eyes in heaven, but I can look for His action in my daily lives.