A man of ancient time and place, with foreign speech and foreign face, reveals the glory, power and grace of costly, unexpected love. A rabbi, schooled in Moses' Law, a male, amending Herod's flaw, arouses wonder, rage and awe with costly, unexpected love. By teasing word and healing deed, a leper touched, an outcast freed, he bears the fruit and plants the seed of costly, unexpected love. The cost we barely can surmise when, lifted up before our eyes, the face of God we recognize in crucified, unfathomed love. May faith and hope within us grow, the way of Christ to tell and show, and may the Spirit breathe and blow in costly, unexpected love.