Heal Your Relationship with God, Yourself, and Others this Lent

Sr. Miriam James Heidland, SOLT takes readers on a deep-dive experience of Lent in
Restore: A Guided Journal for Prayer and Meditation . She invites readers into a deeper relationship with God through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving with an emphasis on healing our relationships with God, others, and ourselves. Each day features a quotation, meditation, reflections with questions to think or journal about, and prayer. There is much to contemplate in these pages.

Sr. Miriam asks readers to go deep into their hearts and souls, into the hurt places, the deep wounds that we try to hide even from God. She asks us to consider our sins and ask for forgiveness. She also invites us to forgive others, especially those who have hurt us most deeply. The forgiveness meditation that she offers is especially powerful.

Sr. Miriam warns that this is not a Lenten experience that should be undertaken lightly. 

The journey you are about to make is dangerous, for if you truly follow the Lord into the desert, you will never be the same. If you enter into this time with him from the heart, you will emerge with a heart that has been changed. . . . Restore is for anyone who desires to experience the forty days of Lent as a healing journey that leads you to explore the crevices of your heart.

If you are looking to have a deeper faith experience this Lent, Restore: A Guided Journal for Prayer and Meditation is a worthy guide. Ave Maria Press offers supplemental resources and videos to go along with the book.