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Product Description
When Mary Lou Quinlan's dear mother, Mary Finlayson, dies, her family is bereft--until Mary Lou searches for her mom s ''God Box,'' her private cache of records to God on interest of family, friends and strangers. To Mary Lou's amazement, she finds not one though 10 boxes pressed with hundreds of small petitions that spanned a final twenty years of her mother's life.
Note by note, Mary Lou unearths a value of her mother's wishes and worries and insight. Mary asked God for all from a right flooring for her daughter's home to a heal for her possess blood cancer. Her requests, penned on bits of paper, were presented but expectation--the ultimate countenance of vouchsafing go.
Follow Mary Lou's romantic tour as she uncovers her mother's innermost thoughts--nostalgic, startling and even a bit shocking. As she recalls life with a lady who was her best friend, Mary Lou also discovers her possess some-more empathetic, intent self--the lady her mom had believed in all along.
Poignantly created and beautifully designed, The God Box is a present for each mother, each daughter, each chairman who, regardless of beliefs, trusts in a life of adore and a energy of family.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #284348 in Books
- Published on: 2012-04-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 112 pages
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''The God Box is such a pleasing story of love, faith and family. It reads, from commencement to end, like an insinuate and informed prayer.'' --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
''Mary Lou Quinlan's mom left a smashing bequest when she wrote such intense prayers and wishes for a people in her life. It is an impossibly relocating and carefree protocol that we should all cruise adding into a daily lives.'' --Reba, musician, author, and singer
''In a small slips of paper that lift this honeyed story forward, all of us can see a adore in a possess families, a yearnings in a possess dreams, and a good possibilities of elementary faith.'' --Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor of The Last Lecture
''A pleasing and profoundly tellurian book. The God Box tells a story of an unbreakable bond between a mom and daughter, and about a lifelong lessons a relatives magnify us with. It is a book we will keep in my heart for a long, prolonged time.'' --Laura Schroff, coauthor of An Invisible Thread
''Mary Lou Quinlan's proposal acclimatisation from an sad daughter to one who takes bravery and knowledge from a messages left in her mother's God Box will enthuse we to emanate a God Box of your own.'' --Gail Sheehy, author of Passages in Caregiving ''The God Box is a book that we will wish to keep by your possess bed with your possess new God Box. Mary Lou Quinlan has told a story of her mom in a approach that entertains, moves and inspires. The thoughts about life and values will hang with we forever.'' --Jim Lehrer, author and executive editor and former anchor of The PBS NewsHour
''For anyone perplexing to pierce past life's difficulties, Mary Lou Quinlan shares her mother's handmade and intense present of how to persist, trust and pierce brazen with joy.'' ----Lee Woodruff, author of In an Instant
''A pleasing and profoundly tellurian book. The God Box tells a story of an unbreakable bond between a mom and daughter, and about a lifelong lessons a relatives magnify us with. It is a book we will keep in my heart for a long, prolonged time.'' --Laura Schroff, coauthor of An Invisible Thread
''Mary Lou Quinlan's proposal acclimatisation from an sad daughter to one who takes bravery and knowledge from a messages left in her mother's God Box will enthuse we to emanate a God Box of your own.'' --Gail Sheehy, author of Passages in Caregiving
About a Author
Mary Lou Quinlan is an inspirational speaker, author of 3 books and an consultant on how women consider and buy. She is a owner of Mary Lou Quinlan & Co and Just Ask a Woman and appears frequently in inhabitant media. Her proudest feat is her A+ in daughter, and she hopes her mom would be generally gratified with this book.
Mary Lou and her husband, Joe, live in New York City and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, along with their dog, Rocky.
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