The good part

Martha is doing everything right. Someone has to make the meal. And Jesus does not tell her to stop; he tells her what she is, anxious and troubled about many things, and that her sister, sitting at his feet doing nothing useful, has chosen the one thing needed. This is the tension of every contemplative life. The work is real. The sitting looks like idleness. And the sitting is the one thing that will not be taken away. Halfway through the forty days: which have you been, mostly? Both are in you. Today, be Mary.