Funny how life happens when you least expect it. An email enquiry from a young lady in her first year at uni, about Catholic mens attitudes to women, led me to some googling, and then I re-discovered this post http://graham72.blogspot.com/2007/07/life-is-living-day-today.html

and serendipity or synchronicity gentle reader had me reflecting on this picture:



look at the flow of direction of the surroundings of both Mary and Martha, Jesus is conscious of both women, and there is a balance and equilibrium at work in Vermeers depiction of the scene.

I fail so often to maintain that balance, juggling so many things and not stopping to smell the flowers or to really revel in a wonderful sunset.

hattip Neil for the painting, and kudos to Erin for asking a question, that has far more import for me than she can realise in her tender years.

YAY life is wonderful, and it's almost


and work, meditation, worship and family will all intersect once again. w00t!