SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 2006
I am obeying a prompting to spread my salt and light a little farther; to pour out my artistic journey to all.
"An Alabaster Path" reflects an honored act of beauty poured out with abandon:
Beauty poured out.
A year's wages gone.
Evaporated.
And yet, the Master-Rabbi was pleased.
So it is with this gift within.
I must stir it.
"A woman came to Jesus with an alabaster flask
of very costly anointing oil, and she poured it on his head as he was dining.
But when His disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying
'Why this waste? This oil might have been sold for a year's wages and given to the poor!'
He said to them
'Why burden this woman with false guilt?
She has done a good work.
The poor will always be with you, but you will not always have Me.
She has lavishly poured this oil in preparation for my burial ...
wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world,
what this woman has done
will also be told as a memorial to her.'"
— Matthew 26:7-13 with John 12:1-8
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