There's just certain moments you don't want to wreck, you know? And some of those moments are

scripted and just have to do with the beauty and the first timiness of

unwrapping a glorious, beautiful work of art or present or a wonderful thing about life for the first time ever.

And you can't really give somebody back that experience.

And so intuitively, if we're socially eyes up in the moment we know I don't wreck that for

somebody it's special but then there are these other moments that just happen you

don't see him coming and they're not scripted and they're not planned but in the moment

It was so simple and it was so exactly right and it meant so very much and I'm thinking of a few of those in my own life and I'm not going to share them with you now or ever because these are the pearls, this is the deep stuff, this is the kind of stuff you hold close to your heart because it was a moment and it was beautiful and it meant a billion things that were vitally important at that moment,

but it was also simple. And if I want to make myself feel like vomiting, all I have to do is picture

those handful of the most transcendent important moments in my life

and imagine some idiot charging in loudly and saying a bunch of stupid stuff about their opinions or money or how the

world is these days.

Oh, it's just gross, it's like a turd sitting on top of the Mona Lisa just creates this gag

revulsion reflex inside of me and the more I think about the situation we're

looking at in Matthew 26 at this house in

Bethany with this lady who's anointing Jesus at the table and what the disciples do in response,

the more it feels like that gross kind of thing to me,

just sullying a beautiful thing before they could even think to realize

the stupid unretractable things that they had just done.

What is Jesus going to do to salvage the disciples

trampling all over this beautiful moment,

this beautiful anointing?

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