A Tale Of Every Woman

Continued from Thursday's blog "A Mary Heart":
Part of me is Mary. I want to worship extravagantly. I want to sit at his feet. But Part of me is Martha - and there's just so much to do!
So where do we find the time to follow Mary to the feet of Jesus? Where do we find the energy to serve him? How do we choose the Better Part and still get done what really has to get done?
Jesus is our supreme example. He was never in a hurry. He wasn't held hostage to the world's demands or even its desperate needs. "I only do what the Father tells me to do," Jesus told his disciples.
Just as he welcomed Mary to set at his feet in the living room, just as he invited Martha to leave the kitchen for a while and share in the Better Part, Jesus bids us to come.
The Martha we see later in the Gospels is no longer frantic and resentful, but full of faith and trust. The kind of faith and trust that come only from spending time at Jesus' feet.
The choice he offered to these two very different sisters - and the transformation they experienced - is exactly what he offers to each of us a well.