I must confess that I have not been praying in public recently.
Yesterday, I biked up town to the hospital, where abortions are carried out,in order to pray with a group that prays for the end of abortion.
Praying in such situations is near the sharp end of putting the Gospel into action. And after years of doing it, I still get that feeling of fear and hope that nobody recognises me. Still, I resisted the temptation to put on my sunglasses.
Jesus did a lot of his work in such a public setting and that experience yesterday helped that aspect of the written Gospels come alive for me again. It is as though the Spirit is very close. (See
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