Thursday of the 5th WK of the Year: Genesis 2:18-25; Mark 7:24-30
This Syrophoenician woman, a pagan, refuses to be sidelined by Jesus. Being as insightful and patient as she is courageous and desperate, she meets Jesus on his own ground, his own logic and opens his eyes to a broader mission than just to his own people and coreligionists.
May her courage, insight, patience and desperation—the concrete form of her faith—inform our discipleship and mission.