DAY THIRTY-SIX – Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Mark 14:1-9
Jesus is hard to be seen as your average rabble-rouser, preaching love and peace! But faced with the falling Roman Empire, the chief priests and scribes had to get him. He seemed to have a big following that was upsetting the apple cart for them to save themselves. What’s more, this Jesus was in the house of Simon the leper. Certainly can’t have anyone being kind and supportive to diseased untouchables. And this was only the tip of the iceberg of undesirables that Jesus was helping. Get rid of him.
Nard for the adult Jesus. Frankincense and myrrh for the baby Jesus. Perfumes for anointing the dying or dead. He was marked from birth.
But Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
His era was a time of huge change by word and deed of one man to what would be known as Christianity. Really big change is not an easy journey, as we are experiencing. It is sparked by something that hit the media of our time. It was a virus, COVID-19. Health issues of world citizens were at stake. I don’t need to spell it out.
Two Yukon Canadian citizens are leaders in moving forward. In his book Value(s) Building a Better World for All, Published 2021, by Mark Carney, former Governor of Bank of Canada, and former Governor of Bank of England. He refers to how COVID-19 has affected us as we are trying to understand climate change, the devastating reports of children’s graves at residential schools, cultural diversity threatening white Christian supremacy. We of Port Perry and Prince Albert United Churches sponsored out Syrian families. But Mark Carney claims these social changes are part and parcel of the world changing from a market economy to a market society and dealing with it.
Remember when your grandmother had a collection of beautiful fine bone china tea cups and saucers. I remember some costing as much as $25. You can’t give them away now. Our values have changed. They have changed the value of many things. Values drive value. The Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) is now being reflected in the cost benefits in Long Term Care Facilities, caring for our elderly and challenged. We should see our values.
The title of the last chapter in Mark Carney’s book is Humility.
We all are in the game as these changes play out. It can be worrisome.
Georgia Brock
Mark 14:1-9
Jesus is hard to be seen as your average rabble-rouser, preaching love and peace! But faced with the falling Roman Empire, the chief priests and scribes had to get him. He seemed to have a big following that was upsetting the apple cart for them to save themselves. What’s more, this Jesus was in the house of Simon the leper. Certainly can’t have anyone being kind and supportive to diseased untouchables. And this was only the tip of the iceberg of undesirables that Jesus was helping. Get rid of him.
Nard for the adult Jesus. Frankincense and myrrh for the baby Jesus. Perfumes for anointing the dying or dead. He was marked from birth.
But Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
His era was a time of huge change by word and deed of one man to what would be known as Christianity. Really big change is not an easy journey, as we are experiencing. It is sparked by something that hit the media of our time. It was a virus, COVID-19. Health issues of world citizens were at stake. I don’t need to spell it out.
Two Yukon Canadian citizens are leaders in moving forward. In his book Value(s) Building a Better World for All, Published 2021, by Mark Carney, former Governor of Bank of Canada, and former Governor of Bank of England. He refers to how COVID-19 has affected us as we are trying to understand climate change, the devastating reports of children’s graves at residential schools, cultural diversity threatening white Christian supremacy. We of Port Perry and Prince Albert United Churches sponsored out Syrian families. But Mark Carney claims these social changes are part and parcel of the world changing from a market economy to a market society and dealing with it.
Remember when your grandmother had a collection of beautiful fine bone china tea cups and saucers. I remember some costing as much as $25. You can’t give them away now. Our values have changed. They have changed the value of many things. Values drive value. The Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) is now being reflected in the cost benefits in Long Term Care Facilities, caring for our elderly and challenged. We should see our values.
The title of the last chapter in Mark Carney’s book is Humility.
We all are in the game as these changes play out. It can be worrisome.
Georgia Brock
