about the Canaanite woman Jesus meets in Matthew 15.  Basically as far as Scripture as told us in the Gospel of Matthew, this woman is the first foreign woman Jesus has come across.  She begs him to help her daughter and even though she’s not a Jew she recognizes who she is talking to.  She knows he is God and addresses him so even though he’s not one of his peeps.  At first he won’t help her, but she is persistant, just like Jesus urges us to do with our prayers to God in the parable of the widow and judge (not sure where that is, don’t have time to look it up).  Jesus comes back at the woman requests to heal her daughter with a comment about not giving the children’s food to the dog, but what’s interesting is that I have heard he’s not referring to her as a stray mutt on the street.  Apparently he uses the term for family pet dog and she has a wicked smart response for him.  She tells him that even the dog gets crumbs from the table, and for her faith, he heals her daughter.  He is amazed at her persistence and incredible faith in his power.  YAY FOR JESUS LOVING NON-JEWISH WOMEN!

Sorry for the speedy post, but my computer died, and the library is closing, and I wanted to post something because I want to remain consistent with the posting.  I’ll try to clean this up later.

Much love–Char