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It was nearing twelve o'clock, and all of a sudden she exclaimed, "O this is Thursday. This
is the day we Jewish ladies in this town play bridge. What will I do? I'd forgotten all about it!"
I said, "Well, go ahead. If you trust me, I'll stay here and finish these cookies. I know I
won't be through until three or three-thirty."
"I tell you what," she said, "I'm making a big pot of ox-tail soup with barley. If you've
never eaten it, I can tell you it is delicious. I'll call up the ladies and see if they'll come here for
lunch. Then we can play bridge after that. Will that be all right with you?"
"Sure! This isn't my house. It's yours. That would be fine with me."
Within I thought, "Thank the Lord! I'm going to be able to see the other ladies as well."
She called the ladies and they all thought that her idea was a good one. She told them she
had a lady doing her baking for her in the kitchen (speaking of me rather condescendingly, I
thought, but that was all right. This was all in God's plan and purpose) . She added a little water to
the soup, but it was delicious anyhow.
All the ladies came -- seven of them -- so there were my eight Jewish ladies! My friend
and I sat down at the table with them. My hostess asked me to be the guest and start passing the
food.
I said to her, "I always pray before I eat. Do you mind?"
"No, go ahead."
Then she explained to the women that I was a Hebrew Christian, that I believed in Jesus,
and that we would pray. So I prayed in the name of the Lord Jesus, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, that He might reveal Himself to all of us and that He might help us throughout the day that
His will might be done. I prayed for the daughter that was soon to get married, that she and her
future husband might enjoy good health and happiness. When I finished, I could see that my hostess
was wiping a tear from her eye. Then we ate.
After the meal, I said, "Now you ladies just go ahead and play your bridge, and my friend
and I will stay in the kitchen and make the cookies because I will have to jump up every so often to
take the trays out of the oven and put other cookies back in to bake."
One of the women said, "No, let's not play bridge today. I'd rather hear what this woman
has to say. We can play any other time. How about the rest of you?"
They all agreed. "Yes, we feel the same way. Can you sit in here and tell us why you
believe in Jesus, how you came to believe in Him, and what He has done for you?"