Speaking in other tongues!

This week it was a delight to lead the women’s bible study, ostensibly in English with ever increasing smatterings of Arabic. The study was with women from our local Anglican congregation. The passage was from Luke 18 - the persistent widow and the miserable judge. The judge having had his ear ‘bent’ by the widow so many times he relented and gave her justice. The parable is of course pointing us towards a caring benevolent God who never gets bored with our prayer repetitions and encourages us to be relentless in prayer. The ladies were as ever, patient and gracious with my deficiencies. With relative success, I tried to enable them to discuss and ponder, rather than assume that the British Lady had all the answers! J