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I strive, sometimes way too hard, to be in our ‘hide’ part of that first category. I teach it to my daughters filter. and sometimes preach it to my mom and often discuss I’m grate- its necessity with my Gen-X, type-A friends. ful God chose But as I grow older, I can clearly see that all types someone like come with sub-categories. Let’s look at the matri- Mary, some- arch of our Christian faith, for one example. We can one so unlike hardly say Mary the mother of Jesus was a Doer. In me. And I am fact, in a worldly view, she was practically a victim, glad His word Greenish me having an unwanted pregnancy and possible scandal gives us this Kelly Capriotti Burton, bestowed upon her. Today’s Roe vs. Wade activists glimpse into Editor-in-Chief might say she had her right to choose taken away her meeting from her. Mary- blessed, peaceful Mary- went with the with Elizabeth. I recently heard a teaching about it flow, so to speak. She accepted God’s call and His gift at the (wonderful, amazing, spirit-refreshing) moms’ and became the ultimate Done-To. We can hardly say, group that I attend, and I could look around the room though, that she was passive or weak. at all the different women there and see how God I wish I could be more like her. keeps building upon Mary and Elizabeth’s relationship The striking thing about Mary’s story, about of affectionate contrasts. the stories of many of the great women of od,for See, just across the room was my friend our faith – some chronicled on the pages of Martha. When I am rising at 8am making this month’s magazine – is that regardless Gall His coffee with my eyes half-closed and set- of the category she fell into, she was used tling with my Princesses in front of Mickey’s and she was blessed. mysteries, Clubhouse until we get it together, Martha God – for all His mysteries – is pretty sim- is pretty has already been up for hours, nursing her ple that way. He wants to bless us and use sweet newborn daughter and likely playing us. simple... He some kind of game of chase with her ador- Consider one of the first stories we read able and active two pre-school age sons. about Mary. In the first chapter of Luke, she wants to Martha is content and super-gifted at being goes to visit her older cousin Elizabeth. We less us a full-time, stay-at-home mom, whereas I don’t get much detail about Elizabeth, but I am so restless I’m always looking for other see her as a Doer. She gets a miracle preg- b& things to do (be it with my kids at my side). nancy and rejoices in it. She’s proud and – We often chide with each other about our the Bible says it – loud! And when she sees se us. different takes on a parallel life. She is a her little cousin, likewise brimming with the blessing to me, as I hope I am to her. miracle of life, she “exclaims.” And she calls u When our speaker began to ask ques- Mary out, and she tells her some- tions, Martha was the one who pointed out thing really wonderful: Elizabeth’s very important role in Mary’s very impor- “Blessed is she who has believed that what tant life, how much it must have meant to a young the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!” and very nervous Mary to have her older, wiser cousin (Luke 1:45) speak confidence and blessings over Mary’s life and So perhaps Mary’s “only” great accomplishment up situation. until this point in her life was the seemingly-simple act After the meeting, I walked immediately to Martha of believing-and-receiving. If that act had not involved and reminded her about a very specific time carrying the manifest Son of God, we’d probably dis- she played Elizabeth to my Mary. And I miss Mary as a plain old Jane Christian, a hugged her tightly. Done-To, not worthy of a second thought. continues~ 6 As women, we spend a lot of energy sometimes fret- Sisters, I repent of the Doer versus Done- ting about what Sister So-in-So does better than we To mentality. The way God really divides us seems to do, or why she got blessed with something we didn’t. be ‘those who will carry the symbols of His glory’ and Can I tell you, I am learning through experience and ‘those who hold up and encourage the carriers.’ (And some serious butt-kicking that God gifted us with ex- I believe those roles can be switched and meshed at actly the gifts He wants us to have for the call He any time). has placed on our lives. When I am at home, I am If you’re a part in some way of gospel music, you surrounded by friends who seem to do it all better know women who write, produce, and/or sing songs. than I do – nursing their babies, losing their pregnancy They might ride in shiny buses and grace the covers of weight, sewing costumes (or buttons), using coupons, magazines. You might know women who work behind having – Lord help me- craft time. When I’m on the the scenes, staying up half the night to design a CD road with my singing husband, I am surrounded by cover or a website after they’ve worked a full day or friends who seem to do a whole different set of things cleaning those grimy buses once they return home. I can’t do – they sing like rock stars or angels, they You might know women who sacrifice their weekends dress like glamour girls, and they don’t seem to worry either leaving their families to go on the road or wav- about how their kids will destroy a pew or a studio ing goodbye to their husbands and taking care of their sound board this week.