Okay - so the first day I sleep a little late and get tied up with a huge email inbox I run into this reading. As I'm contemplating all the reasons that I really don't have to focus on this reading today - coming up with some very creative and extremely valid excuses - I run smack into the story of Mary and Martha.
"Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing" (vv. 41-42). I am a Martha. There is so much to do! And while so many of the things that distract me are frivolous and unimportant - many of the things that distract me aren't. It's difficult to remember that it is crucial to take the time to be with God when there's so many things I'd rather be doing. I'd rather be working to bring justice to the poor. I'd rather be spending time with someone who's lonely. I'd rather be teaching, talking, acting....not listening, reading, praying.
The truth is, though, that I have time for both. I'd like to convince myself that I avoid simply BEING with God because I'm busy DOING for God....but I'm usually avoiding BEING with God because I'd like to watch TV.
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