Luke records a parable Jesus told about a persistent widow and an unrighteous judge. The point to be taken from it, Luke
says, is that we “ought always to pray and not lose heart”.
I have been reading that same parable over and over for half a century as if it has to do with my personal needs of the
day, or week, or month. Persist, we have been taught, and God will give you
the thing for which you beseech him. Can we get an amen, brothers and
sisters?
One of the things it takes some people
fifty years of praying to learn is this: prayer is not all about me.