What does a generous heart sound like?

My husband and I believe that anything we have is God's and we look for opportunities to be able to serve othersuth, author of The Quiet Place, for February 13, 2019.

Well, over the last couple of days, we've been looking at a passage in scripture that I love.

It's just three verses, and it's about a group of women who ministered

to the practical needs of Jesus. In fact, let me just read those verses if you weren't with us

for the last couple of days. It's found in Luke chapter 8, just verses 1 through 3. And it says

Jesus went on through cities and villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news

of the kingdom of God.

And the 12 were with him.

Of course, that was the 12 disciples that Jesus had chosen to accompany him in his work.

But it says in verse 2, also, some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities. Mary called Magdalene, from whom

seven demons had gone out, and Joanna, the wife of Chusa, Herod's household manager,

and Susanna, and many others who provided for him out of their means. Now, there's so much we

aren't told in that passage, but I love what we are

told. These are women who had been dramatically, radically transformed by Jesus' teaching and his

ministry. Now, we don't know if they were all wealthy women or some of them were, but whatever

means they had, they used it to support Jesus.

And of course, it wasn't just Jesus they were supporting, but it was also that band of disciples

and perhaps others who were following Jesus as this teacher.

Well, as I was preparing for this series, I couldn't help but think about some of the women

that I know who are still

meeting the practical needs of Jesus. Now, of course, they aren't literally walking with him,

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