“Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it? And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”(Luke 15:8-10 ESV)
This woman is not wealthy. The coins she holds are a day's wage - enough to get by on. In comparison to the man who lost one in a hundred sheep, she had lost ten times as much, and, for her, that meant one less day to live. Therefore, her joy is even greater. It is contagious. May it be on earth, in our lives, as it is in heaven.
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