My reading this morning was about Martha and Mary with Jesus. (Luke 10: 38-42) This is another Gospel story that annoys me. Guests should offer to help. The correct response would have been for Jesus to say, "You are correct Martha, Mary and I will help you. Afterwards, all three of us will sit down and talk."
But that's beside the point.
The reading about Martha and Mary tells how important it is to be more contemplative. Later, reading "Cloud of Unknowing, I read, " Think that those striving to be contemplative should not only pardon all who complain about them, but be so occupied with their own work that they do not even notice what is said or done around them."
That sentence is proof that the author of the Cloud of the Unknowing is male. Men don't listen--especially when it concerns helping around the house.
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