Just call me Martha...or a Mary-Wanna-Be...or a Martha Mary-ily. Just not there, am I? When I asked my Sunday evening Discipleship Training class which they thought I am...they smiled first.
I knew what they were going to say. "I'm a Martha, aren't I?"
Heads shook up and down.
Yes.
Joanna Weaver's Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World spoke to me. She delves deeply into the relationships among Mary, Martha, Lazarus, Jesus, and herself. Full of references to other writers and stories that solidify each chapter's topic.
I read this one because the Women's Bible Cafe Book Club via Facebook had chosen it for their nonfiction selection of the month. Upon posting, the hostess stated she had read this one for the third time. Now I understand why. The book is just full, page after page, of wonderful words promoting our Lord and Savior. I wish you could see the copy of this book that has become mine...annotations on nearly every page.
I so enjoy such books, for they encourage me to spend time...days, even weeks with characters of the Bible. I keep hearing myself telling my classes that often we read the Bible too fast...so much often happens within even just a few verses. Don't you wish the Bible was a much longer work with so many of those details added? That is what Heaven is all about.
Okay...the Martha in me can check off reading this book from my to-do list. The Mary in me hopes to revisit pages and marinate on the many nuggets that lie within them and share a story or anecdote with either my Sunday School or the above mentioned Discipleship Training class. Yes, a nice blend of service and devotion. Maybe, just maybe, I will eventually be a blend of these two ladies of the Bible.
Click here for Joanna Weaver's blog, where she is hosting Word of God Speak 2014. She is also the author of two other books, which I hope to soon add to my collection.
Happy reading! Blessings!
The Bible can be frustratingly, and also enticingly, void of the kind of details we sometimes want...especially those of us who are readers. We want to delve deeper, to know more. The cool thing is, is that we get that with relationship. Still, I can't wait to have the Lord flesh out the details someday.
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