We often read this story as a call to keep asking until God listens. But what if it is not, we who are the ones knocking? What if it is God? God keeps coming to hearts that have grown tired, to lives layered with disappointment and self-protection. He does not demand or force His way in. He simply stands and knocks, waiting for the faint sound of a heart beginning to open.
Paula D’Arcy once shared about a time of deep loss in her life. She said that for months she begged God for answers and heard only silence. But one morning, sitting in the stillness of her grief, she felt these words rise within her: “I was here all along, waiting for you to stop asking for light, so you could finally see Me in the dark.”
That is the kind of waiting this parable reveals. God waits with sacred patience, a waiting that holds space for us to return. He knows how easily we become deaf to love, how we grow indifferent to pain, how fear builds its walls around us. Yet, like the widow, God does not walk away. He stands at the threshold of our being, knocking softly through moments of grace. The unjust judge, cold and unmoved, mirrors the places within us that have forgotten how to care, the corners of our hearts that have closed themselves to tenderness, to wonder, to another’s pain. And the widow, small, nameless, and relentless, is the Spirit of God within us, pleading gently for awakening.
When Jesus asks, “Will the Son of Man find faith on earth? “Perhaps He is asking something more tender: Will we recognize the quiet patience of God who still waits at our door? Will we let His silence become the space where love is born again?
- Lilly Pushpam PBVM.
Such a different and refreshin perspective SR. Really healing to read.... GOD IS GOOD 🙏🙏😇😇👍👍👍
ReplyDeleteThank you Dear Fr Sathish for being my inspiration.
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