Mari M Perron

Mari Perron, who grew up in a working-class family in St. Paul, Minnesota, knew from early childhood that she wanted to be a writer. But at seventeen she fell in love with her guitar playing boyfriend, got pregnant and married. By twenty-three shewas the single parent of three. The vulnerabilities and struggles of that time continue to inform her writing and her compassion.

As a returning adult student, she majored in English at the University of Minnesota and won the notable Jean Keller-Bouvier Award for literary accomplishment. She also became an employ at the college, remarried, and from that stability began to write again. Her first novel, a mystery for which she gained an agent, was completed in this time. Perron's first published books arose out of the surprising strength of spiritual consolation and witness that occurred with her co-workers and friends, Mary Love and Julieanne Carver. The three share their stories in The Grace Trilogy. Mari was first introduced to receiving and writing in loving relationship with human and divine Holy Ones in this way.

A practicing Catholic, she felt deeply about her faith and had no particular interest in other approaches to spirituality before this time. However, when she purchased A Course in Miracles after reading an article about it the Religion column of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, she fell in love with Jesus in a new way, and eventually was asked to receive a new course in miracles. This new course became A Course of Love, the first volume of which was published in 2001 by New World Library. In 2014 the three-volume work was republished as A Course of Love Combined Volume (Take Heart Publications) and now reaches a world-wide audience. In between, Perron had her first mystical experience, written of in Creation of the New, and also published The Given Self.

Mirari: The Way of the Marys, is a continuation of A Course of Love, and like A Course of Love to be eventually comprised of three volumes. Perron hopes, in this new work, to begin the unification of the feminine and masculine, and also to elevate regard for those who stay-to acknowledge the grace of women (mainly) and those men who care for children, grandchildren, and ailing parents-to a height often reserved only for those (men particularly) who take themselves away from common life experience to create their spiritual philosophy and writings.