Come take a sit.
After a long day of work, I came home to a house that still had things waiting for me. The dishes needed washing, the laundry was waiting, and there were small corners that needed cleaning. Normally, moments like these can bring a quiet sigh or an inner complaint—“Why is there always more to do?” But that evening was different. I simply began. One task after another, I washed, wiped, folded, and arranged. The house slowly became quiet and ordered again. When everything was done, I sat down with a warm cup of coffee and looked around at the clean space. There was a deep sense of calm—not just because the chores were finished, but because something inside me had been different. I had done the work without crumbling under it, without letting irritation take over my heart. As I sat there, I thought about the story of Mary and Martha in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 10:38–42). Martha often gets remembered as the busy, critical woman in the story. She was the one moving around the house, prepari...
