A review of "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World"

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life is a book to which I wish I'd been introduced years ago. In it, Joanna Weaver offers challenging and helpful advice for drawing me -- and women like me -- back to the core of those things that really matter in life.

My husband has been a pastor for 17 years. I work with developmentally challenged adults in a residential setting. And when we married (just a year ago), I never realized all the ways in which our busy lives would impact our relationship and, more importantly, our spiritual lives. We all have different lives with different choices, pressures, situations, challenges and opportunities. But most of us -- or, maybe just me! -- feel overwhelmed by those choices and pressures, the situations and challenges.

This is the book I needed to expose how so much of all that is my own doing.

Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World is based on an exchange in John 11. And in that short account of Jesus, Mary and Martha, Weaver teaches us so much.

As I read this book, I learned so much about myself, my world and my marriage. I learned that life with Jesus really is liberating. And in that way, this book is Gospel to me and you.

If you're feeling frazzled and your faith is running thin, you need this book.

I received this book free, from the Blogging for Books program, in exchange for my honest review.

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