Hello everyone, my name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Wednesday, February 5th, and we’ll be reading Mark 6, 1-6.
Follow along in the Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 6, 1-6.
He went away from there and came to his own country, and his disciples followed him.
And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue.
And many who heard him were astonished, saying, Where did this man get all this?
What is the wisdom given to him?
What mighty works were wrought by his hands?
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joas, and Judas, and Simon?
And are not his sisters here with us?
And they took offense at him.
And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his known kin, in his own house.
And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands upon a few sick people and healed them.
And he marveled because of their unbelief.
And he went about among the villages teaching.
Have you ever seen a beautifully wrapped gift under the tree, and right next to it a gift in just boring brown paper?
Then when the day comes to open the presents, the one in beautiful paper has just a tiny Hershey’s Kiss in it, but the one in the brown paper had a giant chocolate bar.
Some people expected Jesus to be something he wasn’t.
They didn’t like that Jesus was so ordinary, and that he liked to be with ordinary people.
Like the two presents, Jesus was more like the plain package, plain on the outside, but amazing in the inside.
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dear Jesus, help us not to assume things, and to always believe and to follow you.
Amen.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!