A great read on this Feast Day of St. Martha! ...The need for balance is when the “good things” begin to obscure and edge out the better things. We can be anxious, worried and distracted about the work before us. We start to wonder why we are left by ourselves to do the serving; and to follow the serving by cleaning up with a vacuum cleaner held together with duct tape and a variety of Rube Goldberg patches. Perhaps we have spread ourselves too thin; our charitable inclination to good leaving us on the verge of becoming a real life Mrs. Jellyby. Or we may simply be distracted by all things pretty, shiny, and sparkly. Like Mary, though, we can choose the better part and it will not be taken from us. On the feast of St. Martha let us ask the Lord for an increase in our Mary-hearts, putting aside any Martha-like pleas for helping hands, and to sanctify the Martha-tasks that we perform. As we know all too well, the tasks that can wait surely will be there when we return to them. And we can ask for St. Martha’s intercession as we return to that which awaits us, be it the grossest of dirty laundry or the glitziest glitter and glue project. Read more here: wordonfire.org/WoF-Blog/WoF-Blog/July-2014/How-to-Achieve-the-Martha-Mary-Balance.aspx
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 20:01:18 +0000
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