Jesus’ parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector challenges us to view our own places of hypocrisy and to bend our prayers as not a performance, but to respond to the mercy already leaning toward us. Prayer, especially our tradition of common prayer, is how we live in humility, in relationship, and in grace: not getting life “right,” but letting ourselves be received by our loving, liberating, life-giving God.

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