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Over the years, we all have accumulated a number of voices
that bring their life messages to us.
The voice of Mom. The voice of Kindergarten teacher. The voice of a ballet instructor who calls
you, Elephant! and with a single word
mercifully ends your ballet career. The voice of a friend. The voice of an
abuser. The voice of a jerk boss.
With the rise of the influence of media, the number of
voices has grown exponentially, overwhelming even those most capable among us with
sheer volume information. Some call it 'glut'.
Sometimes, the messages we hear complement each other. Other times, they contradict. Many seem good and reasonable and right. I
found that quite frequently those can be the worst, because they leave us with
ever-growing list of ‘shoulds’ but powerless to follow through. This, then,
creates a backlog of guilty feelings making us all the more paralyzed for any worthwhile
action.
Martha had a long list with many items on it. Eventually,
she begrudgingly realized that in order to accomplish everything on her list,
she had to enlist (no pun intended) some extra help.
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Mary chose a short list, if it could be called a ‘list’ at
all.
She chose not to keep up with all the voices projecting
their messages on the screen of her mind and heart. She deliberately chose to
ignore the usually effective guilt/manipulation techniques we all are prone to
employ when wanting to get things on our list done!
Instead, she chose this… one, tiny, seemingly insignificant
little thing.
She chose to lean in and listen to Jesus speak not just to
her ear but also to her heart.
And, strangely, when her heart heard what He had to say (!), just one little word
was enough… was more than enough!... to satisfy the deepest longing…Just one
word, from Jesus’ mouth, had more staying power, more life-infusing energy, than all the other voices combined.
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