Both Mary and Martha

I have to confess that after I am Mary in the morning, after I read the Word, attend online Mass, and pray, I am Martha  all the way through to when I close my eyes and rest at night.

I am so preoccupied with the so many things I need to do in a day! I like the story in John 11:19-27, because even if Martha has gone down in Biblical history as a woman so preoccupied with "work", she is also the woman who gave one of the clearest confessions of faith, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the One who is coming into the world." (John 11:27)

Martha is the woman who had the temerity to approach Jesus, and say reproachfully, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you."

Martha was the woman who asked the impossible, and received the impossible. Lazarus, her brother, rose from the dead!

So let us be BOTH Martha and Mary, and see miracles happen in our lives!