The Best of You Loving Your Inner Enemy
Oct 6, 2026
The Good Samaritan becomes a mirror for the soul as Alison Cook explores the parts of ourselves we criticize, distrust, or push away. She looks at striving, woundedness, anger, envy, shame, and the overlooked inner outsider, revealing how compassion toward these places can reshape our relationships with God, ourselves, and others.
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The Outsider Becomes The Good Samaritan
- Jesus makes the despised Samaritan the story’s moral hero, while respectable religious figures pass by.
- The outsider kneels, treats the wounds, and pays for continued care.
Meet The Outsider Within Your Soul
- The parable’s characters can represent inner parts: a striving performer, a wounded self, and a distrusted inner outsider.
- This outsider may seek relief through numbing, checking out, or avoidance.
Alison Cook Befriends Her Inner Comparer
- Alison Cook describes her inner comparer, who distracts her by highlighting how others seem to do things better.
- With compassion and containment, this rejected part became one of her fiercest champions.
