Two Sisters' Choices

Jesus visited the two sisters.  One sat at his feet listening while the other worked.  Mary might have sat forever.  Without what Martha was doing all might have starved.  Neither was wrong, but neither was completely right.  Jesus seems to say that although Martha's activity was far from wrong and not unnecessary, it was at that moment less important.  Also that Mary's listening could be just for now.  Neither approach was complete and each only followed itself so that both were going in circles, rather than cycles - cycles that begin with the hearing of God's word, lead into attempts to discern its meaning, and turn it then into action before returning to the source.