The impressive Canaanite woman who will not take "No" for an answer, appears as a key figure in today's Gospel: (Mt: 15: 21-28). When Jesus hesitates to cure her daughter, practically totally ignoring the request, this persistent mother comes back with one answer after another to persuade Jesus, and she wins. Jesus cures her daughter on the spot.
How often do we pray for favors for ourselves or others, and receive no response? Or so it seems, but Jesus might just be waiting for us to pray with more conviction, more "moxie", before he acts. At any rate, we need to continue our prayer, answer or not, to grow our faith and trust. The answer will come, in one way of another and we will be better, more faithfilled that ever.
Bro Rene.
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