September 3, 2010

My Journey to God

Mary and Martha and ‘Many Things’

What are those “many things”
We worry and burden ourselves about?
We discovered Martha’s—
I wonder,
What are yours?
I have them too.
We all do.
The “many things”
That steer us off
Our chosen path,
That can swallow us up
Whole, in fact.
Mary, too, had “many things”
She had to have.
But she knew how to choose
When “to do” and when “to be,”
And revealed to us the greatest lesson
That the better part is chosen
Sitting at Someone’s Feet.

By Cathy Lamperski Dearing

(Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. She wrote this poem after reflecting on Luke 10:38-42.)

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