Given the relentless difficulties of life, the competing voices ready to interpret those difficulties, and those sin weights that we might not even see, we pray, and then we ask others to pray too. We need to do this, because if we jump right in to helping others without revealing our own neediness, we put humility at risk. It only takes a few seconds to recognize a slick consultant who merely dispenses answers in contrast to one who is needy before God, has walked a similar path of transparency, and now sits humbly with us, side by side.
