“Go and do likewise.”

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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 06 October 2025
Monday in the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time, Year I
Jonah 1:1-2:1-2, 11     <*((((><  +  ><))))*>     Luke 10:25-37

Lord Jesus Christ:
with so many things
going on in our country
these days, I also ask like 
that scholar of the law,
"who is my neighbor?" 
when we are so divided
not really with politics 
and beliefs but with 
your truth; nobody is 
trustworthy among our leaders,
even with those in media
with many of them influencing
us whom to believe and not;
give us the courage and
strength of that Samaritan traveller
to dare cross the street,
to get down from our vantage
points to do something for those
below, those in the margins,
the poor often exploited by
the corrupt and powerful;
teach us, Jesus, 
"to go and do likewise"
(Luke 10:37).

Then they said to one another, “Come, let us cast lots to find out on whose account we have met with misfortune” (Jonah 1:7).

Before we can 
"go and do likewise"
like the good Samaritan,
we have to be like Jonah
and his companions in the ship
first: to admit our own role,
our own misgivings and failures
why our country had turned 
into this mess; we have turned
away from you, Lord Jesus;
we have been so focused with
our many pursuits that we 
have forgotten those around us
like those crying in hunger and pain;
we have always been on the go,
riding high on our horses
refusing to see those below us
needing our compassion
and presence.

Show us,
Jesus, where do we have
"to go and do likewise."
Amen.