Weekly Devotion: Starving at the Banquet
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“Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”
Those words come from the character Mame Dennis in the 1958 movie Auntie Mame. I love the movie and I love this quote because it’s so true. There are people who sometimes let life pass them by and allow themselves to not enjoy the life they are given. The quote best describes Mame, an eccentric who lived life to its fullest. Even when she lost most of her fortune in the stock market crash of 1929, her spirit was still indomitable. She also had a generosity of heart, offering her home to misfits and oddballs and caring for those who were shunned by the wider society because they didn’t fit the WASP society of the day.
We now look at a parable that many of us know well, but always leaves us scratching our heads. We get hung up on the word “talents” and we don’t understand why the master is so angry at the third servant. So he buried the money. What’s the big deal here?
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-Dennis Sanders, pastor