Driving Around

This week I’ve been studying the parable of the Good Samaritan. (Luke 10:29-37)

Today I left my lane to drive around a homeless guy because I was too impatient to wait for him to finish crossing. I was leaving a shopping center, he was crossing my turn-only lane. He looked about 60 years old; he was stooped over in the old-age, sore back sort of way which left him looking straight at the ground; he shuffled at about 2 feet every 10 seconds. The cars in front of me started driving around him instead of just waiting. I did too.

Stop and wait for him to cross so my van stays between him and any impatient drivers behind me? No.

Roll down my window and ask, “Sir, can I help you?” No.

Get out of my van, take him by the arm and help him up the curb? Of course not.

I drove around him.