ELOGOS for Tuesday

James 5: 16
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective. 
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From time to time, I use the church directory as a pray book.  I look at the names, see the faces as best as I can in my old mind's eye, recall what I know of the burdens they bear and the gifts that they are to our faith community.  It is such an overwhelming exercise I rarely get to the middle of the alphabet much less the end. And so I start the next day in the middle and the next at the end.  And some days, I confess to not praying at all because I carry the day around on my own shoulder thinking that it belongs to me.  It is God who makes me righteous and who makes prayer powerful and effective. I forget that prayer is as simple as leaning in. 
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Lord, in your mercy, hear my prayer. Amen.