Jonah 3:1-10 / Luke 10:38-42
Whenever we are given a task to do and we are told to get it done immediately and quickly and to hurry up on it, we will certainly feel anxious and stressed up as well.
We would rather be told "Take your time" and we think that would be a consolation, and so we will relax and take our time.
So we will think that we can take our time, and that we have lots of time, and then we will procrastinate and become complacent.
So actually, to "take our time" may not be good for us and may not work for us.
In the 1st reading, the people of Nineveh were told that only 40 days more and Nineveh will be destroy.
They could have said "wait and see" or "still got time" but that would have been disastrous for them.
When they heard the message, they wasted no time in getting down to repentance and were serious about it, from the king right down to the lowest creature.
In the gospel, Mary chose the better part of listening to the Word of the Lord.
But to listen is also to act on what we have heard. When the Lord speaks, we cannot but listen. And when we have heard the voice of the Lord in our hearts, let us not take our time to act on it.