Have we forgotten who our neighbor is? Lk. 10:25-37
If you saw a Democrat lying half dead beaten up by robbers on the side of the road.What would you do?
If you saw a Republican mugged on the street what would you do?
When President Biden fell off his bike,
What did you say?
If Trump got hit by a truck what would you do?
Is there a little of the priest and Levite in each of us.
The Priest and the Levite,
Saw the man half dead by the side of the road,
After he was stripped and beaten,
And they just kept going.
Because they thought he deserved it.
Maybe he was a Roman soldier;
Maybe he was a known critic of the religious leaders of Jerusalem;
Maybe he was a tax collector.
Maybe they didn’t want to get involved.
Maybe they were in a hurry and didn’t want to be late.
No matter who he was or what he did,
The priest and the Levite had their excuses to keep going.
And they thought they had good excuses.
The Samaritan did not care why the man was on the side of the road.
This is why he is Good.
He saw someone suffering and reached out to them.
Suffering doesn’t have a label.
It doesn’t care if you are Republican or Democrat;
Religious or atheist;
Black or white.
It comes for us all.
And when it does ,
Do we only help those people who think like us and act like us,
And the rest get what they deserve?
Do we have a list of “ good excuses to keep “ going?
Who is our neighbor?
And are we Priest, Levite or Good Samaritan to them?
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