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.
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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.