Rejoice With Me
"Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls together her friends and neighbors to say, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost coin.’ In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of God’s angels over one sinner who repents."
— Luke 15:8-10
Jesus told this because the Pharisees were grumbling that he ate with sinners. The coin here is a drachma, roughly a labourer's daily wage, so for a woman in a poor home it was a real loss. Village houses in Galilee had tiny windows and earth floors or basalt floors full of cracks, which is why you searched with a lamp and a broom, listening for a clink. Oil for the lamp cost money too. In this short story the woman is the picture of God, and not everyone in that setting was ready for that. The words for friends and neighbours are feminine, so you can see a whole lane of women. Whoever hosted them for such an occasion might spend more than the coin was worth. Jesus does not say God takes back the found one with a sigh. God rejoices over a person out loud, and wants others to rejoice with him.