Pip: There is a blog called Victory Walk, and it opens with a question that most of us quietly avoid: what if being busy is actually the problem?
Mara: Today we’re looking at posts from Claudette Glaude-Scott covering distraction, the cost of a scattered life, and what it actually looks like to stay present when everything is pulling at you. Let’s start with the distracted walk itself.
The Distracted Walk
Pip: The setup here is deceptively simple: modern life is relentless, and the people trying hardest to keep up are often the ones losing the most ground spiritually.
Mara: The post anchors this in a scene most readers will recognize. Here is the passage it reaches for, from Luke 10:40-42 in the NLT: “But Martha was distracted by the big dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, ‘Lord, doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.’ But the Lord said to her, ‘My dear Martha, you are worried and upset over all these details! There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.'”
Pip: So the indictment is not laziness — it is misplaced urgency. Martha is working hard at entirely real tasks, and that is precisely the problem.
Mara: Right, and the post makes this explicit: the same dynamic plays out in how people relate to God. Meetings, rehearsals, ministry obligations — all legitimate, all accumulating — until there is genuinely no room left in the schedule for the relationship those activities are supposed to serve.
Pip: Busy in the kingdom of God with no time left for God. That is a sentence worth sitting with.
Mara: The post then moves into practical territory. Prioritize the relationship first. Evaluate what you are doing and release what you can. Share tasks rather than carrying them alone. And, pointedly: learn to say no.
Pip: “Work smarter, not harder” is in there too, which feels like good advice that most people nod at and then immediately ignore.
Mara: The post closes with a second anchor, from 1 Peter 5:8 in the AMP: “Be sober, be alert and cautious at all times. That enemy of yours, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.” Distraction, the post argues, is not just inconvenient — it is a vulnerability.
Mara: The thought for the day lands simply: “You can’t be at your best when you are distracted.”
Pip: Martha had every good intention and still missed the point entirely. That is the territory worth staying in.
Pip: The throughline here is attention — where it goes, what crowds it out, and what gets lost when the schedule wins.
Mara: Next time, more on what it looks like to stay grounded when the demands keep coming.
Victory Walk 