Exchanging Anxiety for Rest

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Reading Luke 10:38-42 Reflection Many who hear this story of Mary and Martha feel confused.  It can feel like a no-win story. Martha is not only busy, but she is anxious about ensuring there is practical hospitality to offer to Jesus.  Someone has to clean the house.  Someone has to butcher the goat.  Someone has…

Will you be my friend?

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I was riding the subway the other day, crammed like a human sardine during rush hour traffic. I was trying very hard to ignore the couple hundred other people squished uncomfortably close in the car with me when an attractive woman in her early twenties turned toward me and said “How are you doing today?”…