Grace That Changes Your Hands

My dear son,

As Jesus called Zacchaeus from the tree and shared his table, your Father's grace draws close to people. Open your heart to me and welcome love into the actual places where you live.

After being welcomed, Zacchaeus promised generosity and repayment. Received love can change what your hands do. Consider how you use what you have and whether something needs to be put right. Let a moved heart lead to real action.

Give care to an act of sharing you can manage today. If you have treated someone unjustly, accept responsibility honestly and tend the relationship. Live afresh within the grace of the Father who seeks and saves the lost.

With all my love,
Your Father

Luke 19:1–10

WEB

1He entered and was passing through Jericho.
2There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and he was rich.
3He was trying to see who Jesus was, and couldn’t because of the crowd, because he was short.
4He ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
5When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.”
6He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully.
7When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”
8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
9Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.
10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

A short reflection

Jesus visits Zacchaeus, who responds with promises of generosity and restitution, and declares his mission to seek and save the lost.

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