Episode 103: Wasteful Love: Babette;s Feast and Mary of Bethany's aromatic perfume. Wasteful or Wise?
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In John's Gospel, the week before Jesus' death, we hear about a dinner held in his honor at the home of His friends Lazarus, Martha, and Mary. At the dinner, Mary took a pound of aromatic nard perfume worth a year's wages (in today's dollars, it was worth more than $100,000) and poured it over Jesus' feet, anointing him and drying his feet with her hair. That was a fantastic display of love, but was it wasteful? Jesus didn't think so, and neither do I. That gift of love challenges us to be extravagant in our love of Jesus.
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