February 22, 2017
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Living Alongside, with Open Hands
by Sarah Bixler
…time long before locks and home security systems, immediate neighbors had open access to one’s home and family. If you didn’t trust your neighbor, you had better sleep with one eye open! Those who are wise, this passage urges, will readily do good to their next-door neighbors, extending generosity and not inciting harm or quarreling. This is done “when it is in your power to do it” (verse 27, NRSV). The wisdom writer assumes that neighbors indeed…
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