Priorities

Been looking at Luke 10:38-42 for Sunday and it raises the issue of priorities and of choosing what is best over what is good.

Discipleship involves listening to what Jesus teaches and Mary places herself in the position of listening despite the busyness around her. The temptation is to think that Mary didn't face the same pressures as we do that life then was more sedate. But I can't help but think that the pressures then were greater, when your daily bread was your means of living it has to be more pressured than when it is just one option along with pasta, rice noodles, and whatever else. We don't work to live, so much of our work is to consume.

The challenge is to reorder our priorities to be those of the disciple rather than just absorbing those around us that we are bombarded with by advertisers, producers, and the like. The antidote is to sit in the place of the disciple and hear what Jesus says our priorities should be.