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Pay Attention!

Pay Attention!

Pay Attention! Immediately following the parable of the Samaritan, we encounter another familiar story – Mary and Martha. Like the Samaritan parable, this brief story is well known and perhaps misunderstood. Why does Jesus say that Mary has made the better choice? What is the choice she makes? And what might it say to us, in our hyper-busy, always-distracted world?…