Generally speaking, women have never lacked love. We have carried kindness and compassion through kitchens, churches, courtrooms, sickrooms, families, and places where no one even stopped to ask who was carrying us.

But there is a difference between love and management.

In this powerful audio reflection, Tonya GJ Prince explores how women are often expected to become service workers for someone else's comfort while swallowing their own discomfort in silence. Through the biblical story of Mary and Martha, this recording asks a necessary question: What happens when a woman chooses herself and refuses to be sent back into a role that keeps her only useful, but unfed, unconsidered, and unprotected?