My sister in law is so vulgar and rough it is hard to talk to her, going down in health (mass found in her stomach and losing huge amounts of weight after heart attacks plural), stays drunk and just got arrested for selling drugs to her pregnant daughter. She calls to talk to ME. She is usually drunk when she does. She lives in Iowa and I have an old picture of her, but don't really know what she looks like today. She doesn't have a computer. She called me saying she is tired and won't allow them to do further testing in the hospital. Her roommate guy friend is Catholic and she was going to go to his church Easter. She was too drunk for me to find out if she did but he was yelling that someone needs to come get her or he was calling 911 again. I prayed for her on the phone last time. She was too tipsy to connect this time, just repeating stuff over and over. I read this below from Pastor Greg Laurie this morning and thought how Tammy is the woman at the well, getting water when others aren't because she was an outcast about to have an encounter with Christ. Wow, it immediately leapt at me that was a fitting description of Tammy. Pray as I called the next day and left a message for her on her cell phone. No response.

Everywhere Jesus went, He was very much in demand. There was always a crowd around Him, and understandably so. He was God in human form, walking through their streets. Everyone wanted something.

There would be those who always wanted a touch, like the woman who had spent all of her money on doctors, trying to be cured, but to no avail. When she touched the hem of His garment, she was restored and healed.

There is the story of the Syro-Phoenician woman who brought her demon-possessed child to Jesus, and the story of Jairus, who came and asked Jesus to touch his sick daughter.

Everyone needed something, but Jesus knew they needed more than just a healing, more than just a touch, and more than just a word. He knew the deepest need was in their soul.

We see this demonstrated time and again. Despite His incredibly busy schedule, He went out of His way to meet a Samaritan woman in a little town where Jacob's well was located, even though she had no idea she had an appointment with God. She went to that well at that time of day because she was a social outcast.

Sometimes when people do things that are wrong, we get angry with them. Not only do we hate the sin, but we end up hating the sinner also.

Yet God wants us to see that while we can hate the sin, there is still a sinner who is loved by God. Maybe no one has ever told him or her there is another way to live.

May God give us eyes to see this world as He sees it.