"When I was a child,

I spoke as a child.  But when I became a man , I put away childish things."

Why couldn't we see how she pitted us against each other?  Pelting each other with shameful insults that always began with; "My daddy or yo'daddy"

That's a funny scenario in a movie, not in real life.

For the life of me I could never understand why Martha demanded her own personal right to lie and destroy?

 Martha smashed that puppy as a child and that is where she was stuck.  She smashed that puppy over and over, swearing she did no "such a'thang!…I'LL KILL YOU BLACK *************** FO'LYING ON ME!"

It was hopeless. We, me, you, the LORD Jesus Christ in person could not drag Mathy Jane to her truth. It was abysmal!  It was well deserved.

GOD said don't lie.  Yet for some reason Martha thought that only she could,  because she did it so well.  No matter the situation or question,, satan quickly dispatched another "brilliant, fool proof scheme".   She could remember all of her lies and what ever she got caught in,  she could quickly bullshit her way out of with her little feminine siren.  Martha knew how to coo to always get her way.

No, Martha was never maternalistic .  She did not have one maternal bone in her body.  What she could do,  was imitate.   She knew how to mimic good "motherly"  behavior for small blocks at a time.

Martha's greatest weapon was her fierce ignorance.  Her stupidity would knock you down.  I am sure scientist will discover that she suffered from some form of retardation.  She lived to be 87 and never knew her right from her left and always pronounced "loin", "lion".  She never could grasp the concept of "gird up your loins."