She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.

We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.

The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifting the whole time and never realized it until we couldn't find our way back.

God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

He blesses us so we can be different.

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.

It's critical to God that we think about how we live, how we spend the present time with which we're gifted each day.