What happens when you pray—and God seems not to answer?
A desperate mother follows Jesus, pleading for help. At first, He says nothing. The disciples want her sent away. Still she persists, until she gives one of the most startling answers in the Gospels: even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.
She asks for scraps.
What she discovers is something much greater.
Today in The Common Room, we begin with Tom Hoopes’ Benedictine College Media reflection “Beg for Scraps and Get God” and Matthew 15:21–28. From there, we wander into the golden age of radio and G. K. Chesterton’s wonderfully upside-down understanding of humility.
Along the way we ask some uncomfortable questions.
Why does Christ seem silent?
Is persistence in prayer supposed to change God’s mind—or ours?
What does real humility look like?
And are we sometimes so intent on getting the particular thing we want from God that we overlook the astonishing thing Christianity actually promises: God Himself?
It’s a conversation about crumbs and abundance, outsiders and children, unanswered prayer and the strange Christian discovery that becoming small can open our eyes to something enormous.
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