If you want a different perspective on your neighborhood, try getting out of your car and walking (or biking) to those places to which you usually drive. The route to the grocery looks different, and when you are walking you can only get one bag of groceries at a time. There are short-cut trails through the brush behind the strip mall, connecting shops in ways you never knew. Even the scruffiest vacant lot will have wild flowers (a.k.a. “weeds”) poking up among the litter of old plastic bags and empty cans.

Jesus’ public ministry was carried out on foot. Except when a water crossing required a boat, Jesus and his disciples wandered the Galilean countryside and wove their way to Jerusalem, as pedestrians. Jesus encountered everyone at eye-level, walking into the lives of those he healed and …