Lord, even the dogs under the table.
Eat, she said, the children’s crumbs.
This is no mere fable.
The story frees us from eternal tombs.

The Syrophoenician was a stranger.
Yet Jesus was prepared to help.
For him there is no stranger.
No one beyond help.

We only have to ask.
To bury our pride.
That is our only task.
However much people may us deride.

There is no foreign land.
In Jesus every land is our land.

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Even the dogs eat
The crumbs under the table
We all can eat too

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See Mark 7: 24-30