Spiritual Insight: Reconciliation and Forgiveness

Dear God of wounded hands and boundless mercy, The road from Jerusalem to Jericho drops three thousand feet through barren wilderness — seventeen miles of switchbacks where bandits hid behind limestone outcroppings, waiting. The man in your parable didn't just fall among thieves; he was stripped, beaten, and left half-dead in the dust, his blood darkening the pale rock beneath him.…