Magda's Reviews > Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World: Finding Intimacy with God in the Busyness of Life

There are things to be gotten out of this book, but it's definitely too Protestant for me to feel comfortable with it entirely. Again, I didn't finish the book.


----one-star below, October 1, 2007
Not really something I would choose to read. Vassi asked whether anyone had read it, so I got it from the library to review for her. I had to return it to the library before I finished the last chapter and a half, as someone else had requested it.

Things I liked: The concrete what-to-do blurbs suggesting ways to handle different problems.

Things I didn't like: the historical-fiction dramatization of the stories in the Gospel of Luke; the necessary identification of Mary of Bethany as the woman who poured the perfume and dried His feet with her hair (which identification is not made in Luke, although he relates the story); the totally random from-the-author's-life stories which seemed to trivialize God rather than make Him accessible.

I just didn't get a good feeling as a whole. Although there were some parts I liked, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.