Marsha Marks
I received an e-mail from a flight attendant who visited this topic. In writing, she mentioned she had written some books which are published. I asked if I could review them. She contacted her agent and here is the first book which I am sharing with you.
This isn't a book on liveries, per se, but it is written by someone who works in those "long, narrow aluminum tubes." The book focuses on life and faith in general. She does mention her work as a flight attendant, but only as one facet of her life.
Marsha Marks is a wife, mother, and author. Oh, and she's a flight attendant, too. She also is a Christian. This book sums up her life as wife, mother, Christian, writer, and flight attendant.
The book is comprised of one to two page treatises on matters relating to home, faith, life, and vocation. They all address lies she was told or believed until she learned the truth. And she thus shares her lessons with us. She delineates ten lies:
Lies I Believed About Home,
Lies I Believed About Marriage,
Lies I Believed About Children,
Lies I Believed About Money,
Lies I Believed About People and Relationships,
Lies I Believed About God,
Lies I Believed About Appearances,
Lies I Believed About Prayer,
Lies I Believed About Life, and
Lies I Believed About Myself.
The title of the book comes from "Lies I Believed About Home." It looks at the theory of evolution, you know, where order comes from chaos, and Ms. Marks remarks that her life reflects more the Second Law of Thermodynamics: things go from order to disorder.
Basically Marsha Marks is denoting that we by nature believe certain things about ourselves, our families, people, the "way things ought to be," and our faith. These false messages may come from our own faulty understanding, faulty church teaching, or even society's norms. But in Scripture we peel away these "lies" so that we can live and act and be who God intended us to be. Not every wife and mother is a June Cleaver. Sometimes we defer to "our chef, Ron" (Ronald McDonald).
Marsha Marks is witty, entertaining, insightful and, basically, herself. Her writings are a breath of fresh air. She is billed as the "Erma Bombeck of the Bible." (However, I wonder if Ms. Marks really likes this appellation because it insinuates she is not a unique, God-created individual but some knock-off from an original.) I thoroughly enjoyed this book and its proverbs.
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