Mark 12:38-44 Truly, my whole life — including the years I have served as a pastor — I have heard the story of the widow in Mark’s Gospel as a story of sacrificial giving. It is a story about generosity. It is an image of one who gave all that she had. This drama and …
Tag: Pentecost 24B
The Widow’s All
Mark 12:38-44 I spent an hour last week sitting at the foot of the bed of one of our own. Frieda was then in her last days, having lived 94 years. She was surrounded that afternoon by two sons, a grand-daughter, two great-grand-daughters, and an old friend. Not to mention the occasional ‘accidental’ visitors who …