This Lectio Divina meditation for Lent invites us to slow down and reflect on how it feels to be misunderstood.

When have you felt misunderstood? Maybe your motives were misjudged or your actions criticized? I know that feeling well. And I wonder if that’s how the woman in Mark 14 felt as she poured out her costly perfume for Jesus—only to be met with harsh words and judgment.

But Jesus saw her differently. He defended her. He honored her. And He spoke these powerful words: She did what she could.

This week, in our Lectio Divina meditation, we’ll enter this moment with Jesus, slow down, and reflect on:

• Where am I tempted to judge someone else’s actions?
• Where am I holding back out of fear of how others might perceive me?
• What is one small thing I can do for God today?

Through this passage, may we gain a fresh perspective—not just our own, but Jesus’s perspective.

Join me as we slow down, listen, and receive what God has for us through His Word.

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The Entire meditation text is:

Mark 14:3-9, NET

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head. But some who were present indignantly said to one another, “Why this waste of expensive ointment? It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why are you bothering her? She has done a good service for me. For you will always have the poor with you, and you can do good for them whenever you want. But you will not always have me! She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial. I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”

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