TO ST. MARTHA / by Joe Castorino

You are a wonderful woman of hospitality,

  Anticipating all the guests’ needs,

However, your sister sits near the Master,

  As the people He spiritually feeds;

Your anxious mind is whirling with worry,

  Shackled by a million trifling things,

Meanwhile, the Word speaks of true freedom

  That lifts people’s souls with wings;

That day you learned an important lesson:

  First things always come first,

If we drink of the Lord’s living water,

  Then for the world we will never thirst.