Jesus rebukes Martha, not for being busy in the kitchen—after all she did have to prepare the meal—but for her inattentive interior attitude, betrayed by her annoyance with her sister…. Christ tenderly invites her to stop so as to return to her heart, the place of true welcome and the dwelling place of God’s silent tenderness, from which she had been led away by the activity to which she was devoting herself so noisily.1
Returning to my heart. What does it look like to return to my heart?
What does it look and feel like to be distant from my own heart? When I’m distant I feel disconnected, tired, and irritable. I am out of touch with myself and others. I don’t know what I want or how I feel in a given moment. I feel like I’m just riding a wave that won’t let me off and I have no control of the direction I’m going in. I treat people differently. I am not as in tune with their needs because I’m neglecting mines as well.
