Proper 3 Year C

Proper 3

Luke 6.27-38

Gaze on a traffic jam and imagine yourself behind the wheel, smelling the fumes of the cars all around, and hearing the bass beat of a loud radio. You’re on the main road into town, but there’s a side road that joins in at such an angle that the traffic from the left keeps filtering in ahead of you. The clock ticks by and your stream of cars is hardly moving. You’ll be late for work again; you sit and fret. As the irritation rises within you, you cast around for someone to blame. You rail against the unfairness of the situation, the road design, and the stupidity of the drivers ahead that let the others in. Why should they allow the interlopers preference? You long to get out, knock on their windows, and tell them to get a move on! Road rage is so near the surface for us all...