Read the passage from "The Book of Martha." What is Martha struggling with most in this passage?
O God might replace her with another person.
O God will not be amused by what she decides to do.
O God will be mad if she does not tell him what she will
No, Martha thought. Now he had found a different
amusement. "How big a change do I have to make?"
she asked, "What will please you and cause you to let
me go and not bring in someone else to replace me?"
"I don't know," God said, and he smiled. He rested his
head back against the tree. "Because I don't know what
you will do. That's a lovely sensation-anticipating, not
knowing."
do.
O God might not let her make her own decisions.