“ ‘I think’, I said slowly once, looking out at the Sunday worshipers, ‘that we’re being called to something harder than being conventional ‘Good Samaritans’‘. To understand ourselves, individually, and as a church, being rescued by strangers and foreigners, by the 'wrong people'. To understand ourselves individually and as a church, as beaten, hungry, hurting, and lost at the side of the road. Called to touch the parts of ourselves that are strange and damaged and needy. Called to receive love from people we don’t know and have no reason to trust. And only then, in turn, being called to the second part: to go and do the same thing - knowing it will change us in ways we didn’t plan and may not like. And both receiving and giving mean really opening ourselves to strangers - in whose bodies we find, and upon whose being depends, our own salvation.”
Take This Bread, Sara Miles.


"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thought.” Isaiah 55:8-9