Meditation:

“What is written in the Law?” [Jesus] replied. “How do you read it?”

He answered: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.'”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers…”

— Luke 10:26-30 (NIV)

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Quotation:

I know the road to Jericho

It’s in a part of town

That’s full of factories and filth.

I’ve seen the folks go down,

Small folk with roses in their cheeks

And starlight in their eyes;

And seen them fall among the thieves,

And heard their helpless cries.

The priests and Levites speeding by

Read of the latest crimes

In headlines spread in black and red

Across the Evening Times.

How hard for those in limousines

To heal the heart of man!

It was a slow-paced ass that bore

The Good Samaritan.

… Edwin McNeill Poteat (1892-1955)

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Quiet time reflection:

Lord, grant me the Samaritan’s heart.

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