Zaachaeus is perched in a tree. He wants to be close enough to see what's going on, yet far enough away to escape detection and avoid being put on the spot. Zaachaeus's heart melts. He forgets why he hid in the tree in the first place, goes home to eat with Jesus, and sweeps his life clean. Jesus comes upon a man who is paralysed.
Grace is evidently a forgiveness so far-reaching as to enable the prostrate to walk.
A woman has been bent over for eighteen years. Her perspective on life has been narrow and limited, dull and drab. Grace, plainly, is release from molestation at the hands of evil, which molestation isn't our fault. Nicodemus decides to discuss theology with Jesus. More succinctly, grace is the provision of a future, a genuine future, as opposed to so-called futures that are merely the past recycled.