HE WANTS OUR HEARTS TOO

 

HE WANTS OUR HEARTS TOO!

The STORY of Martha and Mary=

Two sisters in the bible

Has become LEGENDARY

WOMEN of the 20th-and 21st

Centuries=are quite ACTIVE=

They WORK for a LIVING

And they(MANY)=also cook-

Clean-do laundry-take CARE of children=

And DO everything else under the sun 

But in the story from 

The BIBLE=Jesus basically tells Martha=

To SLOW DOWN-and come SIT at my feet

Like your sister-Mary

He=Jesus=God=WANTS

Our HEARTS too

“Martha-Martha-you ARE

Anxious and worried

About many things”                                                                                    Luke 10:41

I think today's STANDARDS=

Not only for women=but

For MEN just as well

FALL SHORT of Jesus' STANDARDS

He wants OUR HEARTS TOO=in fact=

I would take it further

And say

He wants MAINLY-our hearts

He wants us to REST IN HIM

He wants us to LIVE

The CONTEMPLATIVE LIVE

NOT just lives of action-

So contrary-to what the WORLD

TELLS us today

DO!  DO! DO!

“And we ALL

Who with unveiled faces

CONTEMPLATE the Lord's GLORY

Are being TRANSFORMED

Into his image

With ever-increasing glory

Which comes 

From the Lord

Who IS the SPIRIT”                                                                                       2 Corinthians 3:18

GIVE your HEARTS to the Lord

Like Mary-once in a while

Give Martha a little break

And LIVE the contemplative life

TURN your hearts over to

The Lord=he WANTS your HEARTS TOO

“BRING an end

To the violence

Of the wicked

And make the righteous-SECURE

You-the RIGHTEOUS GOD

Who probes and MENDS HEARTS”                                                                              Psalm 7:9

“The hearts of the WISE

Make their mouths prudent

And their lips

Promote instruction”                                                                                            Proverbs 16:23

Let us all-LIKE Mary-take

A FEW MOMENTS from our day

And SIT at the feet

Of Jesus

REST IN HIM=read a few

Pages of the Bible-DAILY

He wants to HEAL US

He wants to HELP us

He wants

To TRANSFORM US

Into the people

We CAN BE

It is TIME to CULTIVATE

Our MARY

And give Martha=and our actions=

A little break

TAKE a few items

OFF of your TO DO LIST-today-

And let GOD TRANSFORM you

Into a LITTLE MORE MARY

HE WANTS OUR HEARTS TOO!

(In the name of Jesus OUR LORD)

Robert P. Wallman

7-28-17 and 2-10-2022

Ps          INSPIRED by an article in LIVINF FAITH MAGAZINE by KristinArmstrong