change
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There is a way we focus on what the word has come to mean to us, rather than what it means to Jesus — another chance at grace.
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The appearance and substance of Jesus is too often treated as separate, and relating to matter rather than our experience of him.
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The words repentance and change are treated like concepts to hate or disparage rather than essential, beautiful, and hopeful.
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The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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In these two encounters with the Syrophoenician woman and the deaf man, seeing Jesus change his mind allows us to do the same.
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We need to not only accept change, but the feeling that sometimes rejects it—there is something at war in us that time always exacerbates.