Carmen Hartono discusses the global, religious, and political thinking of the new millennium. A Roman Catholic from El Salvador, her husband is from Indonesia and holds Muslim values. God’s plan further unfolds when their daughter moves to New York and marries a Jewish man.

The author comes to realize that there is something or someone greater in life that transcends everyday existence. And though her life’s journey takes her to a world beyond her wildest dreams, she must also learn to accept devastating grief.

Hartono sees an existence beyond the physical and material world. She repeatedly asks,  “Is this a coincidence or another God-incidence?” She concludes that eternal life is love everlasting.

The author wrote ‘Chronicles of a Catholic Housewife: Forty Years Toward the Promised Land’ as an effort to clear misunderstandings about the Catholic Church, Latin America, and the definition of marriage.