A few years ago, Vance Packard wrote a book he called The Staus Seekers. From him and others like him we learn that having an office with a window and a carpet might be more important than getting a raise.

So what encouragement is there for those who make sandwiches for a cafeteria? Or who fill mail orders at Wards? Or who make boxes at Hoerner Waldorf? Or who are retired - whose job history is in the past?

Martin Luther King Jr. coined a word that says what we all hunger for: somebodiness. It seems to me that’s one way to describe what was driving Zaccheus, his urge to be somebody. Let’s use our imaginations to see how this ambition might have been spurring him on and what his encounter with our Lord did for him and what it might do for us.

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I’m going to call this first part Dreams. …