Amy L. Phillips Bücher

Marilyn Thomas entered the convent at the age of fourteen. It was the best way, she thought, to begin her journey toward holiness. Only now, after many years, is she able to see that what she was really looking for was an escape. Life in the convent was not what she had anticipated. If home had been the mouth of the beast,' the convent, where she spent the next twenty-five years, was the belly.' A year after leaving the convent, she got married. Twenty years into the marriage, she realized she was still chained to "the beast," still living a life of denial: poverty as a denial of material wealth, celibacy as a denial of sex, and obedience as a denial of her own will. What she discovers as she reflects upon her life experience is that, when freely chosen, true poverty is about detached appreciation of material things, true celibacy is about complete focus on the needs and potential of others, and true obedience is about listening for the voice of God however it appears in our lives. What the reader will discover is an evolving woman who moves along her journey toward holiness always singing despite the chains.'