Day 8

Mark 14: 4,5 (Part - I)

But some were there who said to one another in anger, “Why was the ointment wasted in this way? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and the
money given to the poor.”

Down through time, many have asked why this woman would make such an extravagant gift. An equally important question is why would it provoke
such anger in others. I suspect it’s because anger, in a sense, is the opposite of gratitude. The woman gives freely because, aware of her great blessing, she is caught up in a sense of abundance. The others, however, can only see lack and scarcity and because of this can only wish to control, to hoard, and to manage.

How true that is in my own life. When I count my blessings I am blessed yet again with a sense of abundance, gratitude, and generosity. Yet when I focus on what I still want, what I lack, then I become afraid and, sometimes, that fear that there is not enough makes me miserly, even angry.

VC John