Call Me Martha

Today at church we had a speaker who retold the story about Mary and Martha. I have always considered myself more like Martha than like Mary. It seems that I am always worried about what everyone is going to eat, how much food I should prepare, and how I am going to coax everyone in helping me clean up. I have always believed that hungry people are not teachable people. I know that I am wrong in thinking of food first, and I am not sure how I can change this pattern of behavior.

Whenever I am in charge of any church activity, I always include food. I really don't think that that is such a bad thing. This last week, I was in charge of the Young Men and Young Women activity. Of course food was my main focus. We had a pancake cook off. We divided the youth into different groups by having them pull a numbered plastic spoon out of a bowl. The groups got together in the cultural hall and followed the directions to make pancakes. Even though they all used the same recipe they all tasted differently. Some were pretty good, some were not so bad, and some I don't think the dogs would eat. The adult leaders were the judges and the kids all got to eat each others pancakes as the refreshments. It was a lot of fun. The only set back was that we blew a circuit by having 7 griddles on at the same time. (They got it fixed in time for church today) The youth really enjoyed this activity and everyone was fed. I did include a lesson at the end where I taught that going out to eat should be treat and not an expectation and that everyone should learn how to cook a few simple and basic things. The lesson only lasted about 2 minutes because I could see that I was on the edge of loosing the youth.

So, how do I change my attitude on all of this?
I'm not sure what to do to be more like Mary. If I do become more like Mary--who will make dinner?