What I Am Reading . . .

I have several books going all the time. Last night I started on one a friend lent to me that I had wanted to read for quite some time. The Art of Catholic Mothering ( or from Amazon ) is by a homeschooling, Catholic mother of 5 who was so overwhelmed by motherhood that she retreated, literally an Ignatius 5-day retreat, while pregnant with her 2nd child. There she was inspired to write, or rather gather the stories, for this book. She gathered the stories of twelve Catholic mothers. From her introduction:

. . . . It was this thing called SELF SACRIFICE. No one had ever told me that motherhood and dying to self were synonymous! . . .
. . . But it wasn't all wrong; motherhood was exactly the tool that God had chosen to shape my soul and this may not be news to you, but "being shaped" rarely feels pleasant. And even in that retreat of 1997 God allowed me to see and understand that each child He would send would be yet another tool with which He would try to remove some part of SELF that wasn't Christ-like"

I am also almost finished with How Doctors Think by Jerome Groopman, M.D. I picked up my copy from my local library. This is a very informative book and I highly recommend it. I hope to give a copy to my doctor.