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 Tuesday, February 25th, and we’ll be reading Mark 9, 30-37.
Telling your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read Mark 9, 30-37.
They went on from there and passed through Galilee.
And he would not have anyone know it, for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him.
And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.
But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to ask him.
And they came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house, he asked them, What were you discussing on the way?
But they were silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another who was the greatest.
And he sat down and called the twelve, and he said to them, If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.
And he took a child and put him in the mists of them.
And taking him in his arms, he said to them, Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me.
And whoever receives me receives me, but him who sent me.
When someone says you’re a goat, that does not mean you’re a barn animal.
Goat means greatest of them all.
Everyone wants to be the greatest of something, right?
I know I do.
Everybody has an amazing talent and is great at something.
The disciples wanted to be the greatest, and Jesus said, If you want to be the greatest, you have to be the very least.
Ways we can do this is setting the table without being asked, or letting other people go first through the door, and letting your friend have the biggest cookie.
How far can we stretch ourselves to serve someone else, and to become less, to become more?
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Dear Jesus, help us to remember that to be the greatest, we must be willing to be the least.
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.
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