I recently finished (and loved!) Pat Gohn’s Blessed, Beautiful, and Bodacious: Celebrating the Gift of Catholic Womanhood. Part memoir, part instruction, it’s about the awesome gift of being a spiritual mother. Catholics will drink in the Marian connection, but there are plenty of gems for all Christians, including: “God’s spirit is very adaptable. Just open the door a crack and invite him in.”
In addition, I recently started Ear of the Heart, Mother Dolores Hart’s memoir. Women of a certain age will remember her as Merritt in Where the Boys Are or as the girl who gave Elvis his first on-screen kiss. I saw Mother Dolores at a presentation earlier this summer and her face is so peaceful. She definitely made the right choice to, as she put it, “run to God” and become a nun at the peak of her Hollywood career.
What’s on your nightstand? I hope you’ll share in the comments section.
Up to now I’ve just stacked spiritual reading in the general reading pile that I’ll get to someday. This reminds me spiritual reading is important enough to have its own mini-tower.
Good point! God first, then the rest.