As I shuffled through the cemetery’s expired grass this evening — troubled — a verse fragment suddenly dashed almost furtively through my chilly, swirling cranial fog.
Is any afflicted?
Now where did that come from? And what is the answer?
Though I memorized the whole book in which it’s found, I no longer remember if that’s a direct quote. Perhaps there’s an “among you” in there.
Neither do I remember clearly what the response is to the question. But I suspect it has to do with singing.
Here. Just a minute. I’ll look it up. (It’s in the book of James somewhere. Chapter 3?)
Well, I got some of all that right…
let him pray.
Is any merry?
let him sing psalms.”
-James 5:13
I have been praying.
That verse sounds like I should keep on praying.
OK.
But do I need to be praying differently somehow? (You know, some way that’s more effective…)
I don’t know.
Maybe this helps:
Tell me something helpful…