{"id":567,"date":"2010-12-25T14:57:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T18:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingarguments.com\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-12-25T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T18:57:54","slug":"a-real-good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"A Real Good Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my Christmas day blog post. \u00a0It’s not even 2pm yet, and I’m exhausted. \u00a0It’s been a great Christmas though, and it’s helped me realize just how busy I’ve been this year. \u00a0For a while now, I wondered if the ‘Living Arguments’ category of my blog would ever get another article. \u00a0I found this article late last night while reading the BBC News. \u00a0Writer Bernard Hare shares his experience of a Good Samaritan who helps him reach home to see his dying mother.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-12043294<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>While reading the article I recognized that most of the actions of the Good Samaritan in this story weren’t extraordinary. \u00a0He took steps that were well within the power of \u00a0his job to reduce another person’s burden. \u00a0The only thing that most would count as extraordinary is that he actually took the time to minister to someone he immediately recognized as suffering. \u00a0As people of faith we should all consider this in our everyday lives. \u00a0Bernard Hare believes the event helped turn him from “a selfish, potentially violent hedonist into a decent human being”. \u00a0How can each of us taking the time to be that Good Samaritan help others through similar changes?<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to my Christmas day blog post. \u00a0It’s not even 2pm yet, and I’m exhausted. \u00a0It’s been a great Christmas though, and it’s helped me realize just how busy I’ve been this year. \u00a0For a while now, I wondered if the ‘Living Arguments’ category of my blog would ever get another article. \u00a0I found this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-arguments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livingarguments.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}