A TALE OF MERE EXISTENCE by LEV

• What’s most important to you? Make a list.
• What distracts you from what’s most important?
• Write as much as you can in three minutes explaining why a neutral observer should believe that what distracts you is not what’s actually important to you. It’s important to write for the entire three minutes, even if you repeat yourself. Set a timer.

We’ll wait while you write…Ding!

• Why do you think it was so easy or so difficult to write about this for three minutes?
• Run what you wrote through your crap detector. Would you buy your explanation if you heard it from a colleague?
• Consider this scene from Luke’s telling of the life of Jesus. How does this relate to your own challenges to let what’s important be important to you?

As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!”

“Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” — Luke 10.38-42

• Do you have — or can you get — someone on your team to help you let what’s important be important to you?