Should I pray for a parking spot?

Finding God in the trivial things of life

Sat 3 May 2025

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Is it wrong that I pray for a parking spot? We all do it, even though we think:

"There's no way that the God of this universe would care enough about a parking spot!"

It seems so small, so trivial. We may as well pray for our football team to win, or that we can find our lost keys. But based on that logic, why would God care about us at all? We're too trivial. But God does!

He cares so much that He knows the number of hairs on our head. He cares so much that He died for us on a cross.

So based on that logic, maybe God does care about football, keys and parking spots.

So, go ahead—pray for a parking spot.

And while you're there, please also pray for the Australian Wallabies to win? They need all our prayers.

With

Sam Chan

Dr. Sam Chan is one of Third Space's national communicators. He is a cultural analyst, theologian, public speaker, author, medical doctor, and karaoke buddy. Sam was born in Hong Kong, grew up and lives in Australia, studied medicine at the University of Sydney, and did his PhD in Chicago, USA. He is a published author of five books.