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Today our The Kiss of Jesus blog tour stops at “Water Into Wine.”<\/p>\n

Lisa writes:<\/p>\n

“I love when a memoir provides both the shock of the unfamiliar and an intimate sense of shared humanity. Donna-Marie Cooper O\u2019Boyle\u2019s new memoir,\u00a0The Kiss of Jesus: How Mother Teresa and the Saints Helped Me to Discover the Beauty of the Cross<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0does all of that and more.<\/p>\n

With incredible courage, through the gripping story of her life, Donna-Marie reveals to her many fans that she is wounded, like they are. She has made mistakes, suffered from abuse and humiliating losses, lived in poverty, fought to protect her children and clear her name, and struggled alone as a single mom.<\/p>\n

Walking in faith sometimes seems like walking in the dark. I seemed to grope blindly a lot throughout my life, but with a certainty, or at least a strong hope, that there would be light\u2013somewhere. I needed to trust God fully with my life and I prayed to do so. When I found myself in darkness I continued to search for God there, and I strove to serve Him each day in the people He put around me, starting in my own family. (p. 116)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Life, she admits candidly, has not gone according to plan. But because she has persevered in handing it all over to God, step by step and day by day, it has all come right; and she has done more than just survive: she has triumphed by joining her own suffering to that of her crucified Lord:”<\/p>\n

[See the entire review here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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