The priorities of sisters

After Luke 10:38-42 

One sister invites the man,

his entourage as well,

into her home to eat,

to talk, to rest. She works

to welcome, to feed, 

to serve. As she works,

she sees her sister

sitting at the man’s feet,

listening to his talk,

sitting there among

the men, itself a scandal.

Her frustration grows,

turns to anger, until

it spills over, and she

tells the man to send

her sister to help do 

the work. He declines,

noting what her sister

finds more important.

We understand the point,

of course, but we

sympathize with

the sister who works.

 

Photograph by Roberto Nickson via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

C.S. Lewis on Neutered Drones – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

Michaelmas: A sonnet for St. Michael the Archangel – Malcolm Guite.

 

Suffering Honestly: Philip Yancey’s Undone – The Rabbit Room.

 

Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age – Tim Challies reviews Digital Liturgies by Samuel D. James.