Catherine Marshall
Paperback | Pages: 255 pages Rating: 4.05 | 57 Users | 9 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Light in My Darkest Night |
| ISBN: | 0380723794 (ISBN13: 9780380723799) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Why I decided to read this book: I decided to read this book after having seen the film A Man Called Peter, about Catherine Marshall's husband. I have been a fan of Catherine Marshall's for a long time and had wanted to see the film for a long time but this was the first time I had a chance to see it. After watching the film, I looked at the comments on the Internet Movie Data Base and saw a comment about the book Light in My Darkest Night to the effect that Catherine Marshall discussed her life after her husband's death and her decision to remarry.About the book: This book was published after Catherine Marshall's death by her second husband, Leonard LeSourd. It is based on her writings and journals with background information provided by her husband.
Plot summary: The main focus of the book is the summer of 1971 and the spiritual crisis Catherine Marshall went through surrounding the death of her infant granddaughter. When her third granddaughter was born with serious medical issues, and in light of the fact that her first grandchild died shortly after birth, Catherine believed that the Lord was calling her to pray for her grandchild and that if she and her friends did so, the Lord would prevent the child from dying. She called on several of her Christian friends to take part in a four-day retreat to pray for the child. Her friends felt the retreat was a time of great spiritual growth and blessing and God even used one of them to heal an unrelated child, but her grandchild was apparently unaffected. After six weeks, the child died. Catherine had difficulty understanding why she had felt so strongly that the child would be healed if they prayed for her but it didn't happen. The apparent failure also brought some doubts to the surface about her marriage situation. In addition a book project she had been working on for some time fell through. Catherine was plunged into a depression for a time but finally came to accept what happened.
The book describes what happened during the retreat in great detail. One thing that I enjoyed about the book was that it discussed the issue of Catherine marrying a divorced man (Leonard LeSourd) following her husband's death. I had always wondered about that. Though Catherine felt at the time that the marriage was God's will, she had some reservations about it and apparently never felt completely at peace. Though she had a happy marriage, there was constant friction with her three stepchildren, in addition to some problems with Peter Jr. By contrast Leonard never seemed to have any doubts. It was interesting to see Catherine described from her husband's perspective and I think it helps to flesh out her personality. She appears to be a very decisive person who believes greatly in what she is doing, but possibly a little overly critical when people don't meet her standards. I enjoyed hearing a little bit more about what happened to her after A Man Called Peter, and this was a story that I had not heard before.
One reason that the description of the friends who met with her was interesting was that they include some prominent Christian figures. The friends who met with her on the retreat, in addition to herself and her husband, were her son Peter and his wife Edith (the child's parents); John and Elizabeth Sherrill; Jamie Buckingham, roving editor for Guideposts; Virginia Lively; Charles Hotchkiss, an episcopal priest, and his wife Linda; Bob Slosser, an editor of the New York Times, and his wife Gloria; Scott and Nedra Ross; Pam Gordon, wife of Arthur Gordon, a Guideposts associate; and her stepdaughter Linda LeSourd, totalling 16 people.
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| Title | : | Light in My Darkest Night |
| Author | : | Catherine Marshall |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 255 pages |
| Published | : | December 28th 1994 by Avon Books (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Religion. Christianity |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 57 Users | 9 ReviewsJudge Of Books Light in My Darkest Night
Why I decided to read this book: I decided to read this book after having seen the film A Man Called Peter, about Catherine Marshall's husband. I have been a fan of Catherine Marshall's for a long time and had wanted to see the film for a long time but this was the first time I had a chance to see it. After watching the film, I looked at the comments on the Internet Movie Data Base and saw a comment about the book Light in My Darkest Night to the effect that Catherine Marshall discussed her lifeI think this is an important topic for Christians to investigate. I'm not comfortable with Catherine Marshall's empasise on works. Though the books was easy to read her theology worried me a little. The last three chapters were my favorite part of the book, where Marshall shares hymns and poems that spoke to her soul.
Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee.[1][2] She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood.[1] From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia,[1] where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942.[1]While a junior at Agnes Scott College, she met Peter Marshall, marrying
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I read Catherine Marshall's novels a long time ago and loved them. This book was actually written after her death to tell of her struggle through a difficult time in her life - when a grandbaby died. It was pulled together from the recollections of others as well as her own journals. It really wasn't what I expected - and I didn't like her anger at God and some of her thought processes...but it is what she went through and was interesting from that perspective. When she wrote briefly of this
I did not like this book at all. I thought Catherine Marshall substituded dreams and whims for God's Word. I saw her as mentally and emotionally unstable. This book was a waste of my time. I read one third of the book and I will not waste more of my time by reading anymore.
Someone from my church gave this to me to read. Catherine Marshall is a good Christian writer with some salient points, but just like Job, I can't get out what is "good" from the point of view of the person (or people) who actually die.
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