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The Chibi News Daily Reflection
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Hello, my name is Marjorie and I'm a Baptist minister in Sheffield
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The parable of the Good Samaritan is well known in our culture
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and is often seen as an example story. This is what it means to be a good person
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The Good Samaritan wouldn't pass by an injured man without helping him to recover and paying for his care out of his own pocket
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The Good Samaritan has captured our imaginations for over 2,000 years but is the meaning to be nice to people
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or to be a religious do-gooder and do more for others or is there a deeper meaning that we are actually in danger of missing
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Who is the Good Samaritan in the story? In the story, people in positions of worldly power pass by the innocent traveller
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injured on the road but one man stops to help. We like to see ourselves in that story and think
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that we might be the good Samaritan but what if the good Samaritan was actually God? What if we
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were the victim, the helpless, the vulnerable, the person in need of compassion and love and kindness
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Life can give you hard knocks and life can really hurt. People can pass you by and culture can
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cancel you. Jesus says if you feel powerless today we have a God who sees, who stops and who loves
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In our traumatized world it is a powerful picture that no one is beyond his love
