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Thursday October 25th, Luke 18: 1 Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. 2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared about men. 3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him. There are many old sappy movies about the unjust power person and the powerless coming and coming and coming until they finally get justice. Sometimes the process changes the unjust person, sometimes the powerless figure is changed, but often change happens. Jesus is teaching about prayer. It is in the persistence that change happens, at least to the person praying, if not to all involved. When we pray unceasingly, perhaps it is God’s way of getting our attention until ultimately we can start to listen.