From ‘thoughts and prayers’ to prayer that moves

By the Rev. Jarred Mercer | The Daily News | Newburyport, MA

…Using the word “prayer” as a way of avoiding action not only betrays a complete lack of understanding of the word, it’s also blasphemous.

Uziyah, Amerie, Xavier, Tess, Ellie, Rojelio, Jose, Jailah, Jayce, Nevaeh, Jackie, Annabelle, Eliahana, Makenna, Lexi, Eva, Irma, and others whose names we don’t yet know, whom we can only offer to God in silence, do not need evasive “thoughts and prayers.”

They need prayer that moves,…

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