It Just Isn't Fair

Continued from Monday's blog "The Good News":
Life is hard and rarely fair. Even when we work diligently and do what is expected, the daily duties of life often seem to provide few rewards. The last time I checked, they don't hand out awards for sparkling toilet bowls, and the extra hours and effort we give outside the home often go unnoticed and unrewarded. While Martha may have been the first person to ask Jesus the question, "Lord, don't you care?" she definitely wasn't the last. We've all felt the loneliness, the frustration, the left-out-ness and resentment she experienced in the kitchen that Bethany afternoon-doing all that work for others when no one seems to notice and no one seems to care. I want everyone to carry his own weight. But most of all, I want life to be fair.