How many of us are proud to say we are doing our very best to follow the example of a God who was sent to earth as a man and died the humiliating death of a slave? A God who did not associate himself with the powerful but with the powerless. Who again and again associated with the poor, the oppressed, the fatherless, the widow, the foreigner, the downtrodden, the afflicted, the leper, the harlot, and the Samaritan. Jesus never sought power; he sought out the powerless. He sought to serve those around him as if they were more important than himself, and we are called to do likewise.
