Rev Bill

This is not another “Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road” post.

The events in the Middle East the past few weeks — Hamaas crossing into Israel and capturing an Israeli soldier and Israel seeking revenge by bombing Palestinian towns — Hezbollah militants kidnapping an Israeli soldier and Israel responding with attacks on Lebanon – brings to mind the parable Jesus told in Luke 10:25-37 – what we know as “The Good Samaritan” — and the need for all people to “cross the road” to help and understand each others.

Henri Nouwen wrote:

We become neighbours when we are willing to cross the road for one another. There is so much separation and segregation: between black people and white people, between gay people and straight people, between young people and old people, between sick people and healthy people, between prisoners and free people, between Jews and Gentiles, Muslims and Christians, Protestants and Catholics, Greek Catholics and Latin Catholics.

There is a lot of road crossing to do. We are all very busy in our own circles. We have our own people to go to and our own affairs to take care of. But if we could cross the street once in a while and pay attention to what is happening on the other side, we might become neighbours.

Indeed — we all need to be willing to “cross the road” and understand others. Maybe God calls us all to be “road crossers”.

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