God Is Not Reasonable: And Other
Tales of Mother Macrina by Irma
Zaleski
Deeply Challanging
You cant get to heaven, says Mother Macrina, you must become heaven,
and the way that happens is through prayer, repentance, and love. The
wise and lively Mother Macrina—a fictional character born from the
imagination of author Irma Zaleski—is a modern-day desert mother who
lives quietly, but not quite silently, in a small apartment in a town perhaps
like yours. Her surprising and often humorous answers to the questions put
to her by her visitors make up this charming collection of parables on God,
love, and everyday life. The disarmingly simple tales address the
profoundest questions of faith with penetrating wisdom and a spirit of joy.
Personal Review: God Is Not Reasonable: And Other Tales of
Mother Macrina by Irma Zaleski

This is an updated and expanded edition of the great book Mother Macrina
that was published by Novalis press in 2000. This Version has nearly twice
as many stories and bits of wisdom to pass on the the earnest reader.
This is an inspiring little volume that focuses on the wisdom of Mother
Macrina, a wise woman who left a hermitage and settled in a small town in
northern Ontario. Her wisdom became known, and as her reputation
spread, more and more people came to her door, and her door was always
open. She invited them in to have tea and talk.
When she passed away, people were surprised by how many came to her
funeral. These stories are the collection of some of her wisdom and
guidance, the tales that people still tell.
These stories read like the wisdom of the desert fathers, or the Zen
mystics. The book is a collection of short thoughts and its wisdom and
guidance is penetrating. Mother Macrina relates this about being sorry:
Be Sorry!
A woman came to tell Mother Macrina about a quarrel she had with a
friend. She explained in detail how it came about, and how difficult her
friend had been. She was sorry she got so angry, but still...
Mother listened patiently till the women ran out of breath. Then she asked
her, "Why don't you tell your friend you are sorry and be done with it?"
"But Mother," the woman exclaimed, "did you not listen to me at all? It
wasn't my fault; I explained it to you already!"
"So you did," answered Mother Macrina. "What a strange thing it is that to
say one is sorry takes only a moment, but to explain why one should not
say it takes over an hour!" p.16
That is just a taste of the wisdom for life that you will gleam from this little
gem. These brief parables will make you laugh, smile, and pause to reflect
upon your own life and maybe it will help you grow. Pick it up and I am
sure you will enjoy it. Zaleski is also the author of Living the Jesus Prayer
and The Way of Repentance.
Irma Zaleski is one of those hidden treasures in literature you only find by
chance or luck. A number of years ago I ran across one of her books by
chance, I only picked it up because Michael W. Higgins had been quoted
on the cover promoting the book. Since then I have fallen in love with her
writing style and her works. I have tried to track down all of her writings
that I could find. Each one is a gem that will enrich your life.
Zaleski, who was born in Poland in 1931, she escaped to England after the
second world war, and came to Canada in 1952, she has led a vivid and
diverse life. She has been a professor at the University of Toronto, a
translator and a writer. In 1986 she moved to Combermere, Ontario. In her

youth she practiced Buddhism and has studied Christian traditions from
both the east and the west. As such she brings a breadth and depth to her
writings that only comes with such diverse experience.
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