If you’ve ever felt like an outsider, even for just a short while, you know how sweet, how significant, how welcome an act of kindness from a stranger can be, how even a simple smile or warm look can ease the feeling of tension and isolation within.
Today, Jesus cures ten lepers, outcasts of society. But only one of these returns in gratitude, the one who is dually an outsider, the Samaritan. Perhaps he is the one that expected it the least but hoped for it the most. He is the one who never lost faith, which is, in Jesus’ words, the cause of his salvation.
In times of distress, tension, and isolation, how is your faith? May you always maintain it and may it always be met with the healing look of divine love.