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I was thinking the other day about the story of the Good Samaritan. It\u2019s easy to tsk! tsk!<\/em> the behavior of the two guys who didn\u2019t stop to help, but it occurs to me I sometimes do the same. I\u2019m guilty of walking past plenty of opportunities God puts right in front of me. Most of the time it\u2019s not because I\u2019m heartless, but because I\u2019m just not that observant. Perhaps I am busy looking at the time or preoccupied with my own priorities. Sometimes I notice something that needs to be done but assume I\u2019m not the one for the job because I already have too much to do.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s entirely possible the priest who passed by the beaten man had to get to services on time. That Levite may have been rushing home to take care of his sick wife. Either one could have been squeamish about blood, or freaked out because he didn\u2019t know first aid, or thought it would be better to get an expert on the scene.<\/p>\n

Those two passersby could have been cold and calculating men, or they could have been distracted or felt inadequate or didn\u2019t really grasp the situation. We don\u2019t know what went on in their heads, because the passage doesn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

And that, I think, is the point: what is going on in our heads is often irrelevant. What matters are the needs God puts smack-dab in front of us, clamoring for attention. Part of the reason for all that \u201cdo not worry about tomorrow\u201d stuff is that worry over the future can obscure our vision of what God wants us to do today.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, God usually starts us out with small items on our to-do list: simple acts of kindness<\/a>, tokens of generosity, moments of thoughtfulness<\/a>. Let\u2019s see if we can each find a few more of the opportunities the Lord has given us today to be of Christian service to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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