Owl You Need is Love

Each year, Presbyterian Women at St. Mark Presbyterian call all of the women in the church to invite them to a brunch to celebrate the beginning of the programming year.  This year's theme was "Owl You Need is Love" with our own Marie Holt as the featured speaker.

 After some socializing, we sat down to a beautiful breakfast prepared by our members:  Pineapple Tea, Ham and Swiss quiche, Classic Fruit Salad and Better Than Almost Anything Cake.  Then, the featured speaker (and one of the chefs) Marie Holt spoke to us about her new book She Shall Be Called Woman (published by Axiom Press).

 Marie told us this was actually her third attempt to write a book.  This book was inspired by a devotion she prepared for our Christmas Table Top Tea, one year.  "For the devotion I did a first person narrative telling the Christmas story from the innkeeper's wife point of view.  I concluded my narrative by relating how women of today can and do experience the same feelings as she did.  She is not mentioned in the Bible but she had to have been there right beside her husband doing her part to help.  And she had a strong message to share."

 She went on to explain how this devotion lead her to think about other women in the Bible: " I have taken that reference and tried to slip into the persona of that woman by telling the story as I imagine it could have happened.  Second, I have used the stories of these women, both named and unnamed, to offer encouragement and peace to women of today who might find themselves in similar circumstances."

Although the books will soon be available on Amazon, they can be purchased from Marie.