Finding My Religion

Oprah is getting on my nerves! Her Magazine, not so much. She continues to have many good articles to read. Finding My Religion by Catherine Newman, was a great piece. She is a nonobservant Jew, married to a disgruntled Catholic raised by skinny, malevolent nuns!!! No wonder she was searching. Brushed with tragedy, her friend's baby born at one pound, struggles to survive. She prays , Let there be an absence of grief. Also watching this tiny child flutter to breathe, her mantra was, " I believe she is going to be okay.That day there was a miracle, the baby grew up to be perfect.
I guess her question to herself, may have been ,"Who was she praying to?"
The Article begins when Catherine's child is asking her about this lady in a painting, "Is she sad?" They were in Florence looking at the frescoes. Mary was holding the lifeless body of her son. "Yes she is sad." What more could you say to a four year old.
She wondered if our entire religion generated from a mother's most fervent wish that her child not be dead? THAT is an interesting concept.
I love to read about other people's questions about their faith.
I also love pictures of Mary and Jesus, and I know her heart hurt.
Like mine.
Faith .....a personal journey.