Quiet Time: Clobbering the Clobber Texts

Dear God of boundless mercy, This morning I open Luke's Gospel and find a lawyer testing Jesus with the oldest question in the book: "Who is my neighbor?" And instead of a tidy answer, Jesus tells the story of a man beaten half to death on the Jericho road — and the Samaritan who knelt in the dust beside him, pouring oil and wine into wounds that were not his to heal.…