The projected worst week of the coronavirus pandemic is coincidental during Holy Week. Panic, hysteria, blame, and anger fills the news and social media. “This will be our Pearl Harbor,” said the Surgeon General. “Our lives will be changed forever,” said Henry Kissinger and others. Exactly what can we do?
What can I do?
Think about that for a minute. Turn off the news: Words, words, words!
Instead, find a quiet place, take time to reflect on Jesus’ surrender to a woman anointing his head with costly perfume, an act of extravagant love. Scripture is transforming, and you can transform your experience into something more worthwhile than panic, hysteria, blame, and anger.
The Anointing at Bethany
3 And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. 4 But there were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment thus wasted? 5 For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii,[a] and given to the poor.” And they reproached her. 6 But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you will, you can do good to them; but you will not always have me. 8 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burying. 9 And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
Mark 14:3-9 Revised Standard Version (RSV)
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