Diana Wallis Taylor

Dear Readers,

It is nice to just immerse yourself in a good book.  Sometimes it is just to get away. But sometimes reading one that is well written after having read a few not so well written ones is a treat. 

Mary Magdalene by Diana Wallis Taylor is that book for me.  It is very well written about a woman of the Bible that I can't wait to meet.  I want to hear her side of a story that so many have guessed about through the ages.  She has been misjudged, misunderstood, and just not known for years.  Which does seem to drive everyone who studies, reads or knows the Bible crazy (No pun intended). 

Mad Mary as she becomes known to her family and friends was a beautiful young lady, the apple of her father's eye.  She was well known in Magdalene because of her father's ship building company.  So when she is struck down by headaches, seizures and other mental illnesses the town knows and suddenly no one is interested in marrying her or even standing by her family. 

I probably don’t have to go into any more of Mary’s story.  She is probably one of the best known women of the Bible.  Like I said before she has had her entire life guessed about and people believing they have the answer to who and what she was.  The Catholic Church declared her a prostitute, even though there was nothing written about it in the Bible.  In recent years people have decided that she was married to Jesus again with no evidence to that fact (ok that is not a new idea).  

This book is not meant to answer those questions. Diana will be the first to tell you she doesn’t know either. However it does paint a picture of a woman that Jesus freed from her mental illness and she loved him for that and followed him to the cross.  This was just a nice book to read.  I really enjoyed the gentleness of it and yet the beautifully written story of a forgiven soul.

Happy Reading