In last Sunday's gospel lesson, Jesus is out on the boundary between his place of origin, Galilee, and that shadowy place known as Samaria. There he meets a group of people who are on the margins - ten lepers - and he heals them all; this despite the strict prohibitions against contact with such "unclean" people. Jesus then sends them on their way to the temple to give thanks, but one returns, and Jesus is amazed that this foreigner came back to show such gratitude (Luke 17:11-19). This is a wonderful story for us to consider, a story about the thanksgiving of an outsider, and the thanksgiving of an outsider.