Too Busy in the Kitchen
Mary, Martha’s sister, just sat at Jesus’ feet and listened to his words (Luke 10:38-42). She just sat there, hearing the words of eternal life. Can you imagine it? And he says that she chose the better part. Why would he say that? In the background, we can almost detect Martha mumbling to herself while she prepared a meal...
You Can’t Paddle With a Stiff Neck
Someone has to lead in a canoe. In order to make it work, the person sitting in the front must listen and allow the person behind him to call the shots: paddle as directed even when it doesn’t make sense. I do better in the front of a canoe. Though I find I am sometimes inside my own head or I try to paddle independently, closed off to my friend’s voice. The Prophet Jeremiah calls this being stiff-necked.
The Wilderness, the Quiet and God’s Voice
In 1 Kings we read about the Prophet Elijah at a cave on Mt. Horeb. His life had been threatened and he was at the end of his rope. He felt the unrelenting, fierce wind, then an earthquake and finally fire. Then, unexpectedly, Elijah hears “a sound of minute stillness,” the tiny whispering of a light breeze…