Jesus notices the least person who reaches out for him. She expects his anger, the people's judgment. She falls trembling at his feet and confesses. Everywhere we are surrounded by death. But everywhere we are surrounded by life.
Life is always a choice, a decision, an assertion against death, against adversity, against evil.
We choose life when we choose Christ. She has been busy living, and now, by reaching for Christ she has found life indeed. Jairus' daughter is past reaching for life. She can do nothing to help herself. While Jesus is delayed by the woman who touched him, the little girl has died, and that is that.