Observations of an Ordinary Mother — A Review

Paola Belletti, Berica Editrice, 2015, 154 pages
Observations of an Ordinary Mother — A Review
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Archival content: this article was published more than 10 years ago. The language and content reflect the sensitivities of the time.

Posts and essays from a young woman, collected in a book available online through the publisher's website. The reflections of an ordinary life in search of meaning—in the daily, unremarkable steps of a wife, a mother, a worker when circumstances allow, always at heart a daughter of God.

We follow her through the swirl of her thoughts and observations: every moment of daily life becomes a chance to wrestle with the Gospel, even when goodness is hard to find. There are joyful moments and painful ones, angry ones too—but ones to entrust to God, especially as she confronts the mystery of innocent suffering, lived through the grave illness of one of her four children. Readers have said that opening this book, they both laugh and cry: certainly, they live.

Cristina Tersigni, 2016

Cristina Tersigni

Cristina Tersigni

Born in 1969, in 2003 Mariangela Bertolini asked Cristina to collaborate on the special issue about Faith and Light: Cristina was on the National Council of the association and was a useful liaison…

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