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Sorry, that is an old international joke. But it is often true. On the other hand, as a friend of mine from Serbia reminded me – if he were to travel more than 50 miles in any direction, he could be going to a place where they speak another language. We can travel hundreds of miles, and still be able to be understood in English. We don’t have the same need to speak other languages.

I always feel inadequate when I don’t speak the language of someone when I meet them. This is even more true when it is somewhere I would have expected the person to be able to speak English.

How many people have you interacted with that cannot hear?

This Sunday I will share a couple of stories with people that I have interacted with in my life. One when I was less than 10 years old. I was a newspaper delivery person. It was a strange thing for me. How do you converse with someone who is deaf.

Most of us have a good solution – we talk louder. That is also what many of us do when we encounter someone who speaks some other language. Guess what, it doesn’t’ work.

In this Sunday’s gospel reading (Mark 7:24-37) we read about Jesus opening the ears of a deaf person Often, when something like this happens in a gospel reading, there is more going on than just a healing He healed a lot more people than we read about in the Bible. But those that we read about have additional points to be made to us.

So perhaps, as we thing about what we hear about happening as we read about this on Sunday, we can reflect on what else is going on.

In His service together with you,



Pastor Wally