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Today's Devotional

Love is always extravagant, but think what it did. The blood was soon to flow down that blessed face [Christ’s], and we shall never cease to be glad that a woman did what one man thought was a needless luxury, a waste! Ah, we shall come to see some time that everything but love is waste. What we need is extravagant love; love that counts no cost, and asks only to love. That is God-like, Christ-like. Maybe we have never yet come in sight of or apprehended his love? And we never can but through loving. There is just one thing you will never regret when loved ones have passed away, viz., that you loved them too much. We had better be in haste to break our alabaster boxes. The burial is not far off.

About the author and the source

Margaret McDonald Bottome (1827–1906) was an American religious organizer and founder of the King’s Daughters which (after the admission of men and a change of name) boasted half a million members in Canada and the United States within twenty years. She wrote a column in the Ladies’ Home Journal for members and also wrote several books, including the devotional Crumbs from the King’s Table.