Engagement questions:

• Where this story names "Martha, Martha " write your own name. “_____. ____, you are worried and distracted about many things.” Read it that way, slowly. What rises up in you when you hear your own name said twice?

• Jesus widens Martha's problem from many tasks to many things - from her to-do list to her whole inner life. What are the things, not the tasks, that keep your soul pulled apart right now?

• "Distraction is often a strategy - a way of never having to be alone in a room with our own heart." If you sat down in the quiet and let the many things fall silent, what is the thing you've been outrunning? What do you think would surface?