As we continue our series on prayer this Epiphany, one of the ah ha’s we are invited to have by the Lord is that prayer isn’t just about us. A life with God is very much about a life with others. This should come as no surprise to us, as Jesus once responded to a question about the greatest commandment with two: love God with all that is within you and love your neighbor as yourself. Our scriptures this week are from 2 Corinthians, where Paul writes to a church about what it means to pray for and suffer with your neighbor and the second is from Micah, where God rejects our empty attempts at piety and demands that what God truly desires is for us to do justice, to love kindness, and walk humbly with God. Justice and kindness and humility are acts we do with one another, like those neighbors Jesus told us to love as ourselves. A life of prayer, we discover, is a life with God and with our neighbor. Join us this Sunday, as we listen for God to speak, baptize a child, and install and ordain our leaders. God is speaking through all of it! See you then.
