(23) SOMEWHERE NEARBY

(23) SOMEWHERE NEARBY

If our prayer is going to connect with the world we’re part of for the other 167 hours a week when we aren’t in church, we need to remember the raw-edged realities around us and not domesticate them into tidy, bland packages. These intercessions need to be adapted to make sense of our own local community, although we might be surprised at how many of these scenarios are present beneath the surface of the most ordinary-looking communities…