Focus

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed.  Luke 10:41-42a (NIV)

This reply from Jesus was to his friend Martha.  Martha was busy working to get dinner ready for Jesus and His peeps and she whined to Jesus about her sister, Mary, not helping her out.  Jesus call to Martha was simple.  ”Focus!”

We just completed a company district meeting where we talked business, got training, and did the team-building thing.  My boss is a smart fellow and gave us all the challenge of quickly drawing on a flip chart our own personal “coat of arms” that defined who we were and what was important to us….and then we showed that to the group and explained it.  It was a great exercise to make you think about your own life and was very revealing of what’s inside others.

I was shocked to find how simple and and focused mine was, and how easy it was for me to do.  I really was surprized because I think my life is complicated (and it is) and is too busy (and it is) and I’m such a mess (which I am).  Yet in spite of that, I feel like God has given me a completely undeserved and poorly understood gift of focus and clarity about what is important.  I’m learning every day, mostly about how far I have to go, and things are still a little fuzzy.  But I’m learning, like Martha, to at least go to God with the questions and to pay attention to what He says.