Sunday's Gospel
Divided the church into 2 cheering sections. The first
had one word to shout, "decide." The second was to shout, "pest." (You will
never guess, but everyone was great at shouting!). Then, we started to tell
the story of this week's gospel about the old lady who had tried her case to
the court and wanted the judge to "decide." But the judge didn't and thought
the old lady was just a "pest." The old lady kept calling the judge to
"decide," and the judge kept complaining that the old lady was a "pest."
Finally, not
because he cared about the old lady or his decision, but only to
shut up
this "pest," the judge decided to "decide."
And that's the
gospel story. Pretty silly! It ends without really ending,
because we don't
even find out what the judge decided or whether the old
lady was
satisfied.
What's even sillier is that Jesus says the story is all about
prayer. Well,
we hate to disagree with Jesus. But--NOT!
Is prayer
being a pest to God? NOT! Is prayer trying to get God to decide
one way or
another? NOT! Is prayer trying to convince God to make sure
we're
satisfied. NOT!
As we prayed for some of our teachers who are sick and
one of our students
who just underwent heart surgery, we realized that prayer
is nothing more
than all of us learning to become more like God. Because
when we pray, we
care. We care about ourselves, but, more often, about
others. And when we
care, unlike the judge in the gospel story, we become
like God . And when
more and more of us become like God, we spread God's
Kingdom. Now, there's a
pretty good result for our prayer!
CHILDREN & YOUTH CHOIR
Watch your inboxes this week for an email announcement of our new Children & Youth Choir.
Love,
Deacon Charlie
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