Mary’s Way: The Power of Entrusting Your Child to God
by Judy Landrieu Klein
Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2016
by Judy Landrieu Klein
Notre Dame: Ave Maria Press, 2016
Mary’s Way: The Power
of Entrusting Your Child to God by Judy Landrieu Klein is the latest
offering in the CatholicMom.com book collection. In the Introduction, Klein
states that “it is among a mother’s most important labors to pray diligently
for her children.” She also offers two life lessons that she has learned from
motherhood: “There is a God and it ain’t me, and I am not in control.”
Klein has five biological children and two step-children.
All but the youngest are now adults. While Mary’s
Way has much to offer to all moms, those who are a bit further along in the
parenting journey – struggling with teens and/or young adults – will derive the
most benefit from Klein’s hard-won wisdom.
The Chapters in Mary’s Way are centered on the key moments
of our Blessed Mother’s life as revealed in Scripture: The Annunciation, The
Visitation, The Birth of Jesus, The Presentation, The Finding of the Child Jesus
in the Temple, The Crucifixion, and The Resurrection. Mary’s example in each of
these moments offers lessons to us as we make our may through life and our
mothering journey.
Klein interweaves her own spiritual journey and what she has
learned from Mary. She shares how she made her way back to the Catholic Church,
her struggles with unexpected pregnancies (both her own and her daughter’s), a
daughter’s mental health difficulties, a son’s addiction, as well as the loss
of her husband and her brother and sister-in-law.
There is a great deal of pain and suffering in these pages
and Klein is brave to share it with us so that we may learn from her example
and marvel at the way God and Mary have worked in her life. In spite of the
trials, Mary’s Way is ultimately a
story of hope, of finding that Resurrection experience in the midst of the darkness,
of being able to celebrate with Mary when her Son conquers death.
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