"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:16
I needed to run a quick errand and didn't want to redress myself since I didn't need to get out of the car. There I stood with a shirt full of dog and goat hair, banana smoosh spot from a hug I got after kids made banana bread and a few more unknown smudges LOL. I was a mess and didn't realize how bad! So with baggie work jeans (hey they are comfy) wearing my dirty shirt, I slipped on my shoes. What a sight! I grabbed my sweater and zipped it up, hoping to hide the messy shirt. While Driving it hit me how often we do the same thing with our lives. Cover our sin, our pain and sorrow with a clean outer shell. It's an illusion of being fine. But under that clean shell the suffering remains. I saw a church skit one time about selling "press on faces." They had one for every occasion. "Run into an acquaintance" face, "In laws come over" face, and one we all may have worn one time or another, The "Church face". The skit was hilarious, but the truth behind it was sad. Like my sweater, covering up what is really there, beneath the falsehood, the lie, my shirt was still dirty. What is your cover up? Laughter?, Being gruff? continuously doing for others? Hiding?
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective." James 5:16
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