God - the tenacious woman

Looking ahead to Sunday’s gospel:

Luke 18:1-8
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor had respect for people. In that city there was a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Grant me justice against my opponent.’ For a while he refused; but later he said to himself, ‘Though I have no fear of God and no respect for anyone, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will grant her justice, so that she may not wear me out by continually coming.’ ” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God grant justice to his chosen ones who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long in helping them? I tell you, he will quickly grant justice to them. And yet, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

That lesser know spiritual gift:

Tenacity

Harnessed by God as a widow

who knows her rights

Who knows that the arc of justice

is stacked in her favour

that, as a widow,

her rights are protected

in an ethical culture

Tenacity

harnessed to challenge 

ethics ignored

and rights denied.

Tenacity

A spiritual gift 

required today

for all who long to see

justice done

and God’s way upheld

Tenacious God

may we never let up

until your way prevails

in the prayer 

and action

in the tenacity

of your people.