She was a single mom with a special needs child, and she desperately needed Jesus’ help. Okay, so the scriptures don’t actually say that she was single. Our lesson simply doesn’t mention her husband, but I’ve seen enough single moms courageously facing difficult obstacles that I can imagine she may have been one of them.

Perhaps her husband had been killed in an accident or simply died young as many people did back then. Maybe when he saw the extent of his daughter’s disability, he decided he didn’t want that kind of responsibility, and simply walked out. That happened back then as it does today. We don’t know all the background to the story, but we know this was a woman who needed help.

The story takes place in the region of Tyre and Sidon which was Canaanite territory. A woman from tha…