-----REST and PEACE ~~

--"Martha, Martha," the Lord answered, "you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed....Mary has chosen what is better." --[Luke 10;41-42/ NIV]

---My mind churned with my never-ending to-do list. At the very top was that insatiable chore called grocery shopping. Not thinking of what I would purchase that day, I asked myself, "Didn't I just do this?" When would it ever end?
Coming dangerously close to resentment, I wondered. where is the rest God promised? On that wintry morning, my endless scroll of duties--grocery shopping, phone calls, mission works--seemingly defied me with a lesson I'd learned before. Chores went more smoothly when I was at peace. True rest rose and with my peace quotient.

Martha's complaint to Jesus about the domestic duties she carried while her sis, Mary, sat at His feet surfaced in my thoughts. "Upset peace, "not as the the world gives" --but inner peace that causes us to count our blessings even as we fight supermarket-aisle traffic, the kind of rest that descended and endure each day of it feeling blessed, not spent.

The rest God promises has less to with our physical bodies and more to do with His eternal love Godly women both, Mary understood this while Martha was still learning. Yet no matter which sister we identify with, the key is listening to the Lord who reveals to us what is truly needed and what it takes to obtain rest, His rest.

"Dear Savior, please sharpen my hearing toward the batter part, your peace."

--Daily Guideposts/ JFW~