Monday, May 2, 2011

The Steward Has His Assignment

While purpose and meaning are the marks of a full-filling life, the word, assignment, has come to more helpful for me as a steward.  Assignment is more deliniated for a specific time frame.  The reading for today in Mark 13:32-37 and Mark 14: 3-10 were helpful for me because they spoke of specific tasks assigned by the Spirit.

"No one knows the day not the house....Be on guard!  Be alert!.  It is like a man going away; He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with his assigned task and tells the one at the door to keep watch...What I say to you I say to everyone: Watch!"

"She has done a beautiful thing.  The poor you will always have with you and you can help them any time you want...but you will not always have me with you  (for I am going away John 14)  She did what she could.  She poured perfume on my  body beforehand to prepare for my burial."  (a perfume that was worth a year's wag

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