“HOLDING HANDS WITH JESUS”

About the Book

Mary M. Theriault and her husband Stanley live in Sterling, Virginia. For someone who has gone through some deep troughs and high peaks, she can testify to the goodness and warmth of how it is to be truly HOLDING HANDS WITH JESUS. In this anthology of poetry, prose, prayers, and reflections spontaneously written with love and faith, author Mary M. Theriault shares to readers the fullness of joy, solace, and serenity if they only surrender their all to Christ. This little book was written in hopes that in some small way it may reach a lonely or lost soul, console a saddened individual, keep a smile on a happy individual, or mostly bring back a searching soul to the Lord. She puts her thoughts and sentiments into beautiful expressions, praises, lamentations, and prayers. From honoring God’s immense love to Jesus’ tight embrace while the author cried her heart out, from holding hands with Jesus to gazing upon His cross, from breathing in the Holy Spirit to loving like the Blessed Mother Mary, and more, these stirring verses and lines are sure to touch every reader’s heart and soul. There are also “Author’s Notes” that may help explain why she writes the way she does whenever she feels a different array of emotions. She says, “Just remember as you read, Jesus is ready to hold your hand too.”

About the Author

Mary Thiboutot fell in love with Stanley Theriault when she was a young Catholic schoolgirl and he was a young man with a hint of possibly sliding to the wrong side of the law in Southern Maine. They married young, had two beautiful daughters, both raised in parochial schools and steeped in Catholicism. The family they created has grown, changed and been through many trials. Through every military move, through every trial of will and through many things that would have shattered other people, that young love has survived and grown and kept Mary and Stan together. Today they are active in their church and still deeply in love. Mary writes amazing poetry, (some of which has been published as single articles,) makes soaps for friends, designs and writes her own greeting cards, not to mention that she teaches CCD to kids who remember her years later. . Stan works hard to support his wife, his adult children and grandchildren and has become more and more involved in his church since his retirement from the USMC (as a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War). Together, they have proved that “What God has put together, let no man put asunder.” We love you Mom! Thanks for all that you do! We are so proud of what you have accomplished in your life! - Lisa and Angel