Choices

After Luke 10:38-42 

We make them – choices,

that is. Like Martha and

Mary, sisters they were,

we choose what’s

important to us. Do we

serve or do we listen

and learn? Do we

prepare the meal, or

do we break convention

to hear the lesson,

the teaching, spoken 

by the voice like 

no other. If the choice

is to serve, then set

grumbling aside. Others

 have made other 

choices. Do what you

have chosen to do, and

do it well, with

your whole heart.

 

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Some Friday Readings

 

Competing Voices – Crystal Kershaw at Fieldstone Counseling.

 

His Christian Wish to God – poem by Robert Herrick at Kingdom Poets (D.S. Martin). 

 

What Do Christian Writers Owe Their Readers? – Samuel D. James at Digital Liturgies. 

 

Hanging by a thread – poem by Martha Orlando.

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.