I Appeal To Caesar!

synagogue is festooned with banners and bright colors and the air is filled with happy song.

Joyful dancing has always been a part of Jewish weddings, and this was no exception. Saul and Esther, the great scholars, are real people in love, and their happy participation thrills the small congregation. Saul’s rather clumsy efforts at dancing are the delightful highlight of the activities because it is painfully obvious the great scholar is truly human after all! * * * * * Saul finds the woman he married to be a wonderful companion and the great love of his life. They move into a small cave that can be enlarged, but what it lacks in appearance and size is more than compensated by the overflowing affection between the man and his wife. One day, while discussing Holy Spirit activity, Saul elaborates in more detail about his personal experience of baptism in the Abana River, speaking in the Arabic tongue as he came up out of the water. Esther finds this most interesting because she is somewhat familiar with Arabic. The two pray together, in fact rather frequently, but always in either Greek or Hebrew, in which both are fluent. Now, Esther shares that she too would be thrilled to have such an experience and asks if she could hear Saul pray in Arabic. “Why, yes!” Saul replies, “I am sure that it could happen again, but we both must be praying with open hearts and a willingness to allow the Spirit to control our speech.