Often our task as we explore the Word, is to listen to a story we have heard before — maybe even many times before — and listen to it as if for the first time.
Sunday's reading is the story of the Good Samaritan. We've all heard it a hundred times. We've all told it a hundred times. And we're always looking for new and different ways to tell the story.
But do we really need to? There's something to be said for hearing a familiar story with a familiar message. Isn't that what tradition is all about?
Of course, we will hear it differently each time, or we'll find something new that we hadn't heard in it before. That happens because we have had different life experiences since the last time someone told us the story. But we still love to hear the old story...
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