Called to Marriage: Journeying Together Toward God by Carol Luebering

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Marriage as holy calling...Though we human beings often see marriage as a means of fulfilling earthly longings, Carol Luebering shows us how union with a spouse helps us fulfill spiritual longings as well, and, indeed, may bring us to communion with God. The intimate knowing of another human being, she says, is our approach to learning the nature of God. In an introduction, six chapters and a postscript, we look back with the author at our experience to see how it has led us in this way. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection. The book is designed to help the reader reflect, alone or with a spouse, on "what God has already written across the map of your own married life."

Church

Luebering's writing has real style and displays humor and candor when she writes of sex. Luebering writes for married readers, inviting them to reflect on their own marriages in order to see and understand God at work in them.

Theology Digest

Carol Luebering urges married couples to look at their marriages and to compare their call to those of biblical and contemporary couples...examine[s] aspects of marriage and the God who calls--a God who is loving, all-embracing, the source of life, forgiving, compassionate, and open-handed.

Living Light News

This slim volume is an invitation to married people to reflect on how the journey of married life with all its difficulties and joys has carried them toward God.

Buena Vista Ink

Though human beings often see marriage as a means of fulfilling earthly longings, Luebering shows how union with a spouse helps fulfill spiritual longings as well...The author illustrates the journey of marriage using examples from famous couples from scripture, from Adam and Eve to Mary and Joseph and the witness of everyday couples. The book is designed for individuals and couples to reflect on their own married life.

Catholic Spirit

Luebering's use of Scripture as it applies to everyday marriage is refreshing. Rather than use the same texts commonly found in marriage books, she applies other texts, such as noticing the personality differences between spouses Abraham and Sarah. Interspersed with Scripture are stories of modern couples struggling to live good marriages.

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