Is Any Afflicted?

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…

“Is any among you afflicted?
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:

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