Book Review: Weaving Faith and Experience

Weaving Faith and Faith and Experience: A Woman's Perspective by Patricia Cooney Hathaway

  I highly recommend this for women in their 40's and beyond. This is a book for the Middle-aged woman.  This book is like a quilt that is displayed on the cover.  It takes many strands of thought and reflection to develop a quilt.  She reflects on the many seasons of our lives and how we interact during those seasons through work, family and close relationships.  It shows us through our faith journey, using scriptural references, of Jesus' invitation to come and have a personal relationship with him at every season of life.  God invites us to grow in  holiness through every season of lives.  She points out how our faith is directed through our every days lives, from cleaning the dishes to driving your teen to art classes.  It shows us at each how to integrate prayer with Jesus through our everyday lives. One thing that impressed me in this is book is when she talks about,"The Dark Night of the Soul".  Everyone has a dark night at some point in their lives, the fork in the road to choose.  She talk about how through prayer, Eucharistic adoration, Mass, and meditation we are awakened to God's presence through the darkness times in our lives.  He is walking with us.  She used Saint John of the Cross as an excellent example of this. 

You can find this book at Catholic Company: http://www.catholiccompany.com/weaving-faith-experience-womans-perspective-p1004035/

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