{ "item_title" : "Answering the Call", "item_author" : [" Betsy Jones "], "item_description" : "What am I meant to do for God? Those were the words I exclaimed to my mother as I grabbed her shoulders and shook her in the kitchen of our Waltham, MA home.Two months earlier I had returned from a year's service as a Catholic lay missionary in Jamaica, W.I. That year, I had thought, would satisfy my long-term sense of having a spiritual calling. It didn't and now, about to leave my parents' home for New York City, I was feeling desperate.In New York I would begin a two-year masters' program in psychiatric nursing at Columbia University's Teachers College. I would unexpectedly begin a year long course of psychotherapy that proved strengthening and liberating. In New York I would serendipitously meet my future husband.And in New York, moving beyond my deep-seated Catholicism, I would meet and embrace the teachings of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han Moon.Through a divine confluence of these events and others, I mysteriously began to discover what it was that I had to do for God.This memoir is a record of the unusual unfolding of that calling.As I write it more than fifty years after shaking my mother's shoulders, I realize that there were many things I had to do for God, most of which are described herein.On the other hand, I think there was primarily only one thing I had to do: to love others - my family and beyond my family - with as deep a heart as I could muster. This volume is also a record of the challenge and sacrifice associated with that, of my faltering steps the path, and of the Grace that always underlaid everything.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/898/585/9798985855005_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.95", "online_price" : "16.95", "our_price" : "16.95", "club_price" : "16.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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