We sometimes think that we are the first generation to ever have been busy - the first generation to ever have to make choices concerning the use and stewardship of our time.  It's not true, of course.  (What Martha wouldn't have given for the use of a time-saving microwave!)  Mary surely had many things beckoning to her that day - including God-pleasing service to her Lord.  But even that paled in comparison to using her time for the one thing needful - the hearing of her Savior's Word.  Yes, there is a need for council meetings and trimming the church's hedges and balancing the congregation's checkbook and organizing the congregation potluck, but the best stewardship of our time still comes when we sit with Mary at Jesus' feet.