Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life

Joanna Weaver's best-selling book, which has sold close to a million copies, teaches women how to combine personal relationship with Jesus with service to Him.

An invitation to all women who believe they don't do enough, don't love enough, or aren't godly enough. A woman's existence now isn't all that unlike from Mary and Martha's in the New Testament.Like Mary, you yearn to be at the feet of the Lord, but you are unable to find solitude due to the responsibilities of everyday life. Like Martha, you are devoted to serving Jesus and are overcome with emotions of exhaustion, bitterness, and inadequacy.

Then, right in the middle of your hectic existence as a Mary or Martha, Jesus appears and offers the same invitation that he sent to Bethany's two sisters all those years ago. Gently, he extends an invitation for you to choose "the better part"—a happy existence of "living-room" closeness that inevitably leads to "kitchen service" for him.

How are you going to decide that? Joanna takes a novel perspective to the well-known Bible tale and its inventive, useful tactics to demonstrate how all of us—Marys and Marthas alike—can become closer to our Lord, increasing our service and growing in our devotion while experiencing less stress and more pleasure in the process.

A twelve-week Bible study is included in this book.

Look for the companion product to this book, a ten-week DVD study bundle that contains three DVDs and a separate, updated study guide.