Not Doing Nothing

The children were running about wildly crying, :"grandpa is gona chop the chickens! Grandpa is going to chop the chickens!"
I was surprised at all the excitement I didn't even know that you had to prepare a chicken, I thought you sat down and ate fried chicken. That's all my small life experience had given me.
But I knew for sure I wanted to be present for this excitement. After all these were the older cousins whom I had great respect and admiration. Running around collecting the many grand children who all lived in a small radius and there were lots of them.
I gathered around in the crowd of excited children. Ready.... expecting...
Grandpa appeared a mighty towering man of respect and adoration to all,esspecaly his many blessings, that God had graciously given to him.
He had an ax in his hand something also new to me. I lived a few miles away. A world apart from the family who literally were next door to one another, how I loved to visit in this world of blood relatives, where you were "one of them" by birth right.
Grandpa grabbed a chicken then it happened! This man who I had seen as mighty, strong and loving. Swung the chicken causing the body to twist in one swoop breaking it's neck then up on the stump in one action and the ax came down in the other hand with precision and skill the head fell to the ground with the body running wildly with no head wings flapping blood shooting, it was allot for a small girl to take in.
Children were shouting laughing with wild delight. I however, went unnoticed in my shear fright at a defenseless headless creature flailing hysterically about, headless coming towards me without reason or purpose.
I share that to share this:
Our "Work" as I now understand it is to keep our eyes on Jesus.
Those around you will think you are doing nothing.
Mary,sat at Jesus feet.
I'm sure it wasn't just Martha, who found her behavior appalling.

Martha was after all running about doing things. Important things!
There sat Mary quietly cultivating a relationship with the master no doubt she had to tune out the snide remarks made in her direction. Her "work" was to hear the Lord to know Him.
Didn't God say," This is my Beloved Son hear ye HIM". It should be so simple.
But not for clay we have to purpose to cultivate our heart and mind to be in conversation and listening to Jesus.

Right?

By sitting at Jesus feet Mary was ready for service.
When no one Else seemed to hear Him. She alone took the expensive perfume (she was criticized) to prepare Jesus for His burial. She heard Him when He said as a seed must fall to the ground so must the Son of Man. He also said as Jonah was in the belly of the whale so the Son of Man will be in the earth for three days.
She alone prepared Him.
She had purpose.
Seek ye first Gods righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
Gods righteousness is Jesus.

Martha is such a great example also because she was the one who seemed to be "doing"good, man she was awesome. Think about it, she was preparing food the house everything that we would do, that make sense to the human mind.
She had the praise of men.

Consider this:
Martha is remembered for what?

Mary is remembered for preparing the Christ, the Son of the Living God, to do the "Work" of saving the world.