Showing Mary
How Women Can Share Prayers, Wisdom, and the Blessings of God
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Publisher Description
Reverend Renita J. Weems draws upon two prayers from the Book of Luke, examining the relationship between Mary and her older cousin to reveal the important effect mentoring has on the lives of women. The story of a young pregnant Virgin Mary visiting her older pregnant cousin Elizabeth, told in Luke 1:39-56, is one of the most profound examples in the Bible of an empowered mentoring relationship between women. Drawing upon the Hail Mary and The Magnificat 9rayers, SHOWING MARY retells this touching story, revealing how both mentor and protg use their respective gifts and energies to support ach other. This relationship is then applied to modern life, emphasizing the importance of women mentoring women, nurturing each others dreams, sharing wisdom and experiences, and building networks of mutually rewarding friendships between older and younger women.
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From Luke 1:26 56, source of the Hail Mary and the Magnificat, Vanderbilt biblical scholar Weems (Listening for God: A Minister's Journey Through Silence and Doubt) extrapolates a world of wisdom for everyday women in this accessible book. Shining a light on Mary and Elizabeth, two pregnant women separated only by age, Weems weaves a cogent, yet gentle summons to women who are "spiritually pregnant," which she says is a condition of soul, not body. "Whenever you feel like you're being summoned fromsome deep and holy place... to some deep and holy place within, know that it's God inviting you to an altar where you might encounter God anew and yourself anew," she explains. Weems prescribes a healthy network of women supporting other women, and at the end of each conversational chapter she provides a prayer to demonstrate the point. An ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, Weems uses her knowledge of biblical culture to enrich this manual for facing into the winds of life's changes. But without a speck of academic dust, her writing reaches out to women of all ages and colors. She combines personal anecdote, exhortation and an effective blend of cheerleading and poignancy, revealing a genuine comprehension of the lives many women lead, often curtailed in service to others. Easy to read, this is a valuable book, a gift for those ready to "stop crouching in the dark, like a woman without a God."
