Time Management and Women
Today I attended a business women’s breakfast in the city and the topic was Mary & Martha. I had to laugh - last breakfast it was the Proverbs 31 Woman and I have a blog on that topic too. I commented to the organiser and she said perhaps she better check my blogs before she plans the next breakfast!
The breakfast was broken into 4 sections and one of the ladies spoke about time management and referred to Mary and Martha. She suggested that Martha’s comment/question to Jesus about getting Mary to help related to the fact that she struggled with getting things done and wanting to be organised. Seeing Mary doing something that perhaps she’d like to be doing, but couldn’t (because she felt she couldn’t), frustrated her and made her annoyed. The speaker suggested that sometimes we can put importance on things that really aren’t that important, or if they were, they might not be that urgent.
We aren’t told in Luke whether Martha had a schedule she was keeping to, but chances are she could have dropped what she was doing and joined Mary at Jesus’ feet and the two of them could have worked together later to catch up on whatever needed to be done.
How often are we guilty of placing urgency or importance on something just because we want to be orderly and organised? At the breakfast we even laughed at the fact that we like to have our beds made before we go out - is this a female trait or something we have copied from our mothers and older generations? For me personally I feel it’s about keeping the marriage bedroom respected but it’s true, if the bed wasn’t made one day, it isn’t going to wreck my marriage.
Sometimes we tend to blow things completely out of proportion and what we really need to consider is how missing doing something in favour of spending time with the Lord is going to affect our walk with Jesus. KMT
April 5th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Kathie,
This blog entry is very closely tied to a podcast I listened to just before reading here.
The podcast devotional talked about how we placed importance on getting things done in our schedules and avoiding doing other things like, helping someone in need, i.e. a recently widowed neighbor who may be alone, or a friend seen at the grocery who may be having an tough time, when we should be spending time with these people who need us.
We need to focus our priorities. And just because we’re a little late to a meeting or because our bed isn’t made isn’t going to make our world come crashing down around us.
We need to spend more time in God’s word and building our spirituality in God.
Thank you for sharing today.
Kimberly
April 5th, 2007 at 4:43 am
That’s amazing, but I shouldn’t be surprised. I know that God shares the same message with many people - I’ve just been writing about that on another blog - www.workplace-ministry.com.
Thank you for dropping by Kimberly.
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