never let your fears
decide your fate The Holy Gospel According to St. Luke the10th Chapter! This is one of those stories that it serves us well to just really slow down, and listen to as if we've never heard it before. The truth is, this is probably one of the Bible stories that has made its way into popular culture. All too often we hear things like; 'are you a Mary or a Martha;' or 'without Martha, Mary would not have been able to sit there at Jesus' feet.' You know, things like that. The problem with reading the Gospel through such formulas, though, is that aside from being boringly formulaic, it falsely pits Mary against Martha, it mistakenly pits time of rest against action. In other words, this simplistic reading misses the real power of this story in some sorry attempt to boil this rich instant down to some lesson on how best to and not to behave. Whenever the Gospel becomes a list of dos and don'ts, we should get ...