Read Luke 10:25-37 with your family.

This is a story about helping those who are different from you, and accepting help from people who are different than you.

When most adults talk about the Good Samaritan, they focus on the two men who passed by without offering any help, they just made excuses. The adult talk about who those men were, and why they did not want to help the man.

But the real story is about helping strangers, and accepting help from strangers.

We teach children to be afraid of who and what they don’t know, and there is good reason for that. Adults want children to be safe.

However, most times strangers are good people who see that someone needs help and offers it. God was showing us that sometimes strangers are kinder to us than people we might know.