Day 9

Mark 14: 4,5 (Part - II)

The culture we live in depends upon a sense of lack to function. If we do not feel inadequate, or lacking, or that we don’t have enough, we will not keep buying things we don’t really need and keep this massive economy going. From an early age we are therefore taught that we don’t have enough, that the answer to fear is to have more, that we ourselves are not enough. The messages are so
regular and relentless that it is difficult not to surrender.

Can it be, therefore, that part of being the. community of Christ is to remind each other that God has given us enough? Enough to have, enough to share, enough to be happy in this life together.

There are, I think, two choices in front of us – to focus on our blessings and respond with the open hand of gratitude and generosity, or focus on our lack and respond with the closed fist of fear and
anger. The choice, ultimately, is too difficult to make alone, and so we need each other to remind us of God’s abundance and love.

VC John