past due Mary and Martha poem

It has been awhile for my inspirations for posting on this blog...I have been writing and experiancing many things since my last posting. One of those was a Sisters Study day given by my bio-sis. on 'Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World'. She had given these classes at a weekend on the west coast and at that time had asked me to write a poem on the subject. Here is what I wrote...

We often let the cares of life

The work, the stress, fill our minds

Though our hearts may be right

For prayer and study there is no time

We get so filled up doing this and that

We forget to stop and listen – as Mary sat

We will be doing the Martha work

The caring for others, just being kind

That of the necessary we lose sight

Finding our spiritual lives in a bind

So stop going out doing this and that

Sit down to pray and listen – as Mary sat

 

When we put the word first in every task

The stress of the work is left behind

Our worries will be left in the past

The time to do all we will find

No longer wandering doing this and that

With joy, praying and listening – as Mary sat

Tic ‘2008

Had to retype this into my collection - somehow it never made it there!!!