The Broken Road The Better Way

It is clear that when Jesus entered Martha’s house that day, there was a preexisting condition to this family.  Forces already at play in each person’s life.  But, Jesus is not a stranger to their story.  In fact, He knows and understands it better than they know and understand it themselves… because He’s been there from the beginning… from the very beginning of all beginnings…

We may be mystery to us and others, but we are no mystery to Him. 

He knows where we came from. 

The family. The innocence.  The dreams.  The hopes. The pain. The disillusionment. The shattering.

He knows where we are going.    

The place He has prepared for us. The place He is preparing us to inhabit forever. The place where He will wipe every tear away from our faces.

And, between those bookends, He knows the way we must take to get there. 

For He Himself is the Way. 

He loves each of us just as we need to be loved…    It's love tailor-made for our bruised and battered, inflicted and inflated soul… love that no one else on earth can give us….I can't give it to you and you can't give it to me. But, in His good time He gives each of us exactly what we need… perhaps not necessarily what we want… but whoever could trust the wisdom of his or her own desires?

However, before He can give us anything, we must be ready to receive it… And this is where Mary is a great example, a teacher extraordinaire to all of us, bustling  fuming Marthas…