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The story of Mary and Martha is one of the more well-known stories of the Bible, like the story of the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan, the story which this immediately follows, by the way. And I don’t know if this ever happens to men, but I can tell you that if you are a woman and you’ve attended enough women’s retreats, you will eventually spend some time talking about the Martha and Mary story. You’ll be asked to indicate which one you identify with, and the vast majority of the women in the room will identify with Martha. And since Martha is scolded by Jesus, the whole thing ends up deteriorating, with the Martha-identified women commenting that if Martha hadn’t been cooking and preparing, how did Jesus think that dinner was going to get on the table?
