At times, I can feel insignificant, inadequate. And, so I remain at a distance from the life to which the Lord calls me. Zacchaeus knows something of this smallness. He is physically small, but perhaps more deeply, his moral life has become diminished by corruption. Yet, he does not allow his smallness to keep him from seeking Jesus. He climbs a tree simply to see Him and Jesus responds to this small gesture with another small gesture: Jesus stops, looks up, speaks to him, and asks to stay with him. Jesus shows us that what appears small to us can possess infinite significance in the eyes of God. An apparently insignificant gesture - visiting someone, sharing a meal, an invitation to friendship - changes the direction of human life. Zacchaeus discovers that being seen and welcomed by Jesus makes it possible for him to change. He stops being corrupt and restores what he has taken. His encounter with Jesus leads him towards integrity. Perhaps this is the grace being offered to me today. In the first reading, the Lord stands at the door and knocks. He does not ask me to do something extraordinary. He asks for something small: that I open the door of my heart to Him. The Lord, Who patiently waits outside, asks to come into my heart. Perhaps the whole transformation of my life begins with nothing more than this small gesture of opening myself to God.