When asked how many people would receive salvation, the Lord said that everyone should strive to enter heaven’s gate. Jesus healed a crippled woman, but a synagogue official bristled because the Lord could have waited until after the day of rest. At a Pharisee’s home on another Sabbath, the Lord asked if He could lawfully cure a man that day. No one answered, but Jesus healed him anyway. Sirach, an Old Testament sage, plainly said that God is not deaf. Do we stay close enough to the Lord to hear what He has to say to us or wait until we feel like shouting our prayers?