Good reading

I have recently started reading a book I received for Christmas, "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World" by Joanna Weaver. I had wanted to read the book simply based on its title. If ever there was a Martha personality, it is me!

Martha exemplifies what we women seem to expect of ourselves: manage a household well, raise exemplary children, cook fantastic, healthy meals, be involved in some sort of service either in church or volunteering, hold down a job or be actively pursuing your own creative goals. And we wonder why we are weary all the time. As you can see from previous posts, it is a constant battle for me to try not be all things to all people.

We wear ourselves out with frantic going and doing. But Jesus calls us to Him to sit, rest, be refreshed and strengthened. Today as I was rereading Matthew 11:28-30 the Lord again was calling me to be still. He is calling ot all who are weary, who have worked to exhaustion. His yoke is easy—it is a place of rest, recreation, fulfillment.

I am memorizing that Scripture and spending time contemplating the fulness of what Jesus calls me to be—not to do. He calls me to be at rest. What yoke are you walking under?

Blessings