I, Mary
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Wind whistled through the cypress trees as I made my way through the courtyard to the community well. Dust from the surface of the hard earth invaded my sandals and worked between the toes of my feet as I walked. I kept my eyes on my feet on the familiar path, offering a prayer in praise of the oncoming spring and the sunshine that greeted my day. I balanced the clay jug of water on my shoulder, its weight softened by the folds of my dress and tunic. The animals in their pens were making their early morning pleas for food. The goats bleated and the chickens crowed and clucked. A small calf nursed at his mother, butting her bag to make the milk flow. Women dropped in hay and sprinkled straw in the pens for bedding. I gathered my tunic closer to keep out the chill of the wind.
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About the Book
There are many missing years and little mention of Mary of Nazareth in the Bible beyond the birth of Jesus. I, Mary fills in these missing years with Mary’s own story of her emotions and her experiences as she cares for her husband and family. The story is interspersed with quotations from biblical texts to make the story one of historical fiction. She demonstrates her very human responses to events and struggles with her own perception of the promises of Jesus’s life. Explore with the author what might have been in Mary’s mind and heart.
About the Author
Linda Kay Christensen, a former farm girl from central Illinois, has enjoyed many years as a bank manager, a self-employed accountant and tax preparer (CPA), and an online instructor for Keller Graduate School (DeVry University). She earned her undergrad in Business Management and her Masters in Human Resources from the University of Illinois, Springfield. Linda’s history in writing has included everything from business communication, teaching, and journaling to occasional poetry and now to her books. The inspiration for these books comes from a series of five prints by C. Clyde Squires given to her grandmother in 1916 as a wedding gift. The characters in these prints come alive in Linda’s series of the “five stages of love”. Linda’s writing includes four novels, Annie’s Love, Sophie Writes a Love Story, Out of Darkness to Accepted Love, and We Promised: A Story of Abiding Love. I, Mary is the fifth and final book of the series. Article publications are in the Creative Writing Institute’s Explain! Anthology published in 2016. Two articles for Purpose Magazine are included in the June and October 2018 publications. Linda is a member of the Writers League of Texas and Women of Words in Fredericksburg, TX.