Martha was not missing out on the best because of her busyness. She missed it because of her fretfulness. In lectio divina, we begin with lectio, the first stage of the process: we read the text with the goal of simply listening to it rather than analyzing it. The Word speaks, we listen and receive, taking special care to ignore all of our presuppositions about what God might want to say to us, and letting the living Word speak afresh to us. Mary of Bethany shows us that this