martha-kim or mary-kim

only 1 thing matters

 

just one

 

how many of us want to be Mary, but feel way more like Martha pretending to be Mary?

 

we are busy

we put so many things above Jesus

our relationship with him

jobs, relationships, prayer rooms, conferences, motherhood, facebook

 

I want to be "Mary-Kim"

but I probably act more like "Martha-Kim"

 

visionary, planning, schedules

 

how do you get there

to the one thing?

 

how?

is it like Nike' ...just do it?

but how

how do you just do it?

 

I think He tells us..from the ancient words

 

love God

love neighbor

 

You shall love God, your God with everything you have, all your heart, all your soul, all your strength and all your mind

AND

love your neighbor AS yourself

 

we have spent a lot of time and attention defining who is our neighbor

the people around us,

the lost, poor the broken

like in Luke 10,

I probably feel more like the one beaten laying on the side of the road 

but did you catch that tiny little word

that powerful little word

as

love as

as yourself

 

is it possible we spend so much time trying to love God from being busy,

from outside of our heart

not from All my heart?

inside

 

is it possible that I try to stay busy to keep from loving myself?

or am I trying to prove how much I love God by being busy?

or do I really not love myself and if I keep busy I won't have to worry about that one thing

 

one thing

as

 

I am to love you as much as I love myself

is this the sting?

do I really love me?

 

if I don't love me, myself, I have nothing to love you with

 

if I feel so busy, a cover for shame

am I rally finding the one thing that kept Mary at his feet?

 

she was a woman

she had the same responsibilities that Martha had, a you and I have

 

did you catch her name

a woman named Martha, but a sister called Mara.

Mara means bitter

what happened that they called her bitter

yet she knew

she knew how to love herself

give up the striving

and sit

rest

 

she knew only 1 thing matters

 

in motherhood, business, running churches and programs..still

only 1 thing matters

 

can you imagine a whole church service just sitting at his feet

 

one thing

there will always be millions of details to our lives

but only 1 , one thing

 

2 very short scriptures

that lay a foundation for life

 

one thing

only one thing really matters

and that will not be taken away ...

 

I want to be a Mary-Kim