The story of Martha from the Bible reveals several things about her. She had a servant’s heart. We first meet Martha while she and her sister and brother are hosting a dinner for Jesus. Martha wanted everything to be perfect and got frustrated with her sister Mary for not helping.
We later read about Martha after her brother Lazarus died. She meets Jesus and tells Him that if He’d been there, her brother wouldn’t have died, but then she says something that shows her faith in Jesus.
But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.
In both these incidences, Martha speaks without really considering the consequences of her words. Still, we can learn much from Martha’s story such as don’t stress about the insignificant things in life and don’t let anything shake your faith in Jesus.
That’s the Martha from the Bible. Let me tell you about my friend, Martha.
She’s outspoken like Martha from the Bible, but she has a heart of gold, and she’s been one of my biggest supporters as an author.
Recently, when a few days before my husband and I were scheduled to leave for Colorado, the cabin where we thought we’d be staying wasn’t ready, Martha offered her cabin to us to stay.
I’d told Martha we were going to Colorado a few weeks before the problem came up, and she’d told me she wished we could have stayed in her cabin. That’s just like Martha. Always so giving.
At the time I thanked her for her kind offer and then later when I found out that our cabin wouldn’t be ready, I asked her if we could stay at hers for a few days. She never hesitated to tell me we could stay as long as we wanted.
She and her husband built the cabin many years ago. They spent most summers there together. When we bought our cabin up there in the small community in the middle of national forest, we had the honor of meeting these two wonderful people.
After Ed passed away, Martha still came and spent several months up there by herself. She drove herself there and stayed until the weather started changing in October.
The Martha I know is a strong woman. She’s outspoken like the Martha from the Bible, but her faith in Jesus is every bit as unshakable as Lazarus’s sister. And it’s been a blessing and an honor to call her a friend.
I wish I had a picture to post of her smiling face, but I don’t, so I’ll let you leave that to your imagination.
I hope each of you are blessed enough to have someone in your life like my friend Martha. Because everybody needs a Martha!
Here are a few photos taken from the cabin. I hope you enjoy them.
All the best. . .
Mary
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