Yesterday I woke up at 5 a.m., put the coffee on, and decided to go to the park to watch the sunrise. My days usually go more smoothly when I begin by spending a few minutes reading something insightful. Waiting for the coffee to perk, I sat down to read the now-iconic story, “The Good Samaritan.”
As the parable goes, a Jewish man was beaten, robbed, and left on the road half dead. By chance, a priest and a Levite, the ones you’d expect to comfort an innocent victim, saw the man. Offering no assistance, they passed by on the other side of the road. But a Samaritan man, a member of a group that was hostile to Jews, came near him. Surprisingly, the Samaritan stopped, picked up the injured man, and went out of his way to provide much-needed help.
