The scripture from Matthew 20 was the parable about the kingdom of heaven compared to a landlord who hired workers early morning, afternoon and late evening for the same wages. Interestingly none of them had a job earlier but were given a job by the landlord.
At the end of the parable, the workers, instead of being grateful to the landlord were furious with him because they started comparing their daily wages with others labourers. The workers employed in the evening were given the same salary as the people who worked since morning.
The landlord eventually had to defend himself saying that just because their heart was evil because of ungratefulness and greed, it cannot override the fact that the landlord was good.
Serving the poor, marginalized, down trodden or even people in need with good intentions can at times backfire but there is a call to serve for God and not for man.
Once I landed in Frankfurt, I took some office calls and then went to the forex exchange counter asking for an exchange of my big 100 euro bill into smaller notes.
The German on giving the change back to me replied - "I cannot refuse since you asked me so kindly".
I am about to board my flight to Amsterdam post which I will take a train to my host family. Ronald and Tineke Nagtegaal will receive me at the train station at Driebergen Zeist at around 3 PM.
( I need to get used to eating lots of cheese in the morning for the next 9 days)
I had to take some pictures to give some color to this blog post 😀
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