{"id":7683,"date":"2012-10-10T15:06:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T22:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2014-10-23T17:49:49","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T17:49:49","slug":"the-neighbors-short-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/significant-sustenance\/the-neighbors-short-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Neighbor&#8217;s &#8211; Short Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7693\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Hand\" src=\"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Handup-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Handup-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/iamsignificantca.lightningbasecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Handup.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span>God will often offend the mind to reveal the heart, and the following is a short story I wrote as an adaptation of the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan. Set in the modern day, I have attempted to re-tell this powerful story in such a way that we can identify with each of the individuals in the story while staying true to the scandalous message as Jesus intended. I have deliberately written this to illustrate the humanity of all involved and, in the end, to challenge us in the area of love, justice and our prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>This is a story of mercy, compassion and justice. Moreover, it blows the box off our thinking that we determine who is in and who is out. A reminder that God has no problem coloring outside of the lines of our religiosity to bring us to the centrality and sufficiency of His love to make strangers into a family.<\/p>\n<p>This post contains language that may be offensive \u00a0to some readers. Discretion is Advised.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Neighbors.pdf\">Download it here Free: The Neighbors<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u00a0God will often offend the mind to reveal the heart, and the following is a short story I wrote as an adaptation of the familiar parable of the Good Samaritan. Set in the modern day, I have attempted to re-tell this powerful story in such a way that we can identify with each of the&#8230;","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[71,110,111,207,300,347,397,492,534],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soul-significance","category-significant-sustenance","tag-big-picture","tag-community","tag-compassion","tag-giving-generosity","tag-jesus","tag-love-one-another","tag-parable","tag-story","tag-value-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}