{"id":60658,"date":"2015-02-19T23:21:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/?p=60658"},"modified":"2015-03-13T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T00:24:00","slug":"lenten-reading-rosary-and-inner-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/theanchoress\/2015\/02\/19\/lenten-reading-rosary-and-inner-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Reading: Rosary and Inner Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I don\u2019t know why but I just can\u2019t bring myself<\/strong> to produce my annual \u201cSuggested Lenten Reading and Resources\u201d<\/a> post. It\u2019s not that I have no recommendations; like a vaudeville comedian, \u201cI got a million of \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n

I just have no head for gathering it all together<\/a> in one spot. I think I need to shake things up, do something different. Maybe the Holy Spirit wants me to hit precise targets \u2014 make sure certain people see certain books \u2014 and that\u2019s best done shot-by-shot than with a spray of ammo? <\/p>\n

Anyway, so this year, instead of one big post, I\u2019m going to do a series of little posts. A book title, a cover shot and a quote or two from it. Assume if I\u2019m featuring it at all, it means I\u2019m recommending it, and that way you can kind of discern if you too might like it! <\/p>\n

\"Rosary<\/a>Let\u2019s start off with Fr. Dwight Longenecker\u2019s Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing<\/em><\/a>,<\/strong> which is not precisely a \u201cLenten\u201d book, but I think it might be particularly useful in Lent, when we are looking for renewal and healing from our old self, our repeated failings<\/a>, and all of the old wounds that pull us down into them.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026evil cannot extinguish the good. What is essentially empty, negative, and false cannot overcome all that is abundant, positive, and true. The darkness cannot put out the light. It is simply impossible for evil to defeat goodness. That\u2019s why Jesus rose from the dead: because you cannot kill the one who is Life, itself.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s a simple truth we don\u2019t ponder enough.<\/strong> We\u2019re all very hard on ourselves, and there are times when we really should<\/em> be, but not to the extent that we begin to self-destruct. We can\u2019t let our sins and mistakes lead us to forgetting that we have light, and we have worth \u2014 we must be worth something or God wouldn\u2019t create us, wouldn\u2019t love us so lavishly<\/a>, wouldn\u2019t constantly be waiting for us to turn toward him. No matter how badly we have sinned, how distinctly we have screwed up, we\u2019re not \u201cnothing.\u201d God cannot exist where \u201cnothing\u201d is (you know I\u2019ve said that before<\/a> and often<\/a>). <\/p>\n

So, we\u2019re something, and what good we have managed in our lives cannot be extinguished, not even by our own badness.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine it? Can you place yourself in the amazingly tiny state of a seed and egg meeting? You were once just two cells at the creation point of a new life. Allow the Holy Spirit to bring you to that simple moment. Can you feel what the emotion was like at that moment in time? Was it full of love, tenderness, and God\u2019s grace, or was there negativity, lust, or rage within that foundation moment? Was there tension, selfishness and fear? Was there a lack of trust, despair or anger? <\/p>\n

Let it go. Let Jesus Christ\u2019s forgiveness and healing into that moment. Feel God\u2019s perfect fatherly love and grace filling that moment. Allow the motherly love of Mary to overwhelm any gaps and failings in the love of your human parents. Allow the forgiveness of Christ to flow to them. He loves them and knows their failings. He knows the gaps in their lives, too. Take time. Allow Christ\u2019s healing love to seep into every tiny crevice at the very beginnings and foundation of your personality. Rest in the knowledge and presence of Jesus Christ the healer. He is there at at that moment. You were formed in his perfect love. You are safe, secure, loved and valued. You are infinitely precious in his sight. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing<\/em><\/a><\/strong> is a unique book, that may speak perfectly to a very unique need for healing, and for the real \u201cletting go\u201d that healing allows. We are meant to be free, first and foremost of the evils that have touched our lives, through no fault of our own. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t know why but I just can\u2019t bring myself to produce my annual \u201cSuggested Lenten Reading and Resources\u201d post. It\u2019s not that I have no recommendations; like a vaudeville comedian, \u201cI got a million of \u2019em.\u201d I just have no head for gathering it all together in one spot. I think I need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":60659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[595,671,1198,527],"class_list":["post-60658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bookchat","tag-books","tag-healing","tag-longenecker","tag-rosary"],"yoast_head":"\nLenten Reading: Rosary and Inner Healing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I don't know why but I just can't bring myself to produce my annual "Suggested Lenten Reading and Resources" post. 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