Behold Your Life: A Pilgrimage Through Your Memories

by Macrina Wiederkehr

Sometimes on life's long road it is helpful to pause and reflect on the journey we are making. Macrina Wiederkehr encourages us to reflect on our memories, both joyous and painful, so that we can move into the future with new wisdom and strength. In this forty-day pilgrimage, Wiederkehr guides us to let go of bitterness and blame and to prayerfully, simply behold our lives. She helps us to open the door of memory and journey again with Jesus down our life's path. From the moment of our conception, through the joys and pains of childhood and adolescence, and on to the quest for love and the fullness of life in adulthood, she leads us to recognize the ever present, loving touch of God. Behold Your Life is a wonderful resource for a healing retreat-during Lent or whenever the Spirit of God urges us to embrace our memories and discover the goodness hidden in our wounds.

Genres: Spirituality, Writing

122 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 1999

About the author

Macrina Wiederkehr is an author and spiritual guide and a Benedictine monastic of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She travels throughout the US and Canada as a retreat director. In her retreats seekers are guided through experiences of silence, contemplation, and faith sharing.

Reviews

[Mary K.]

Only for the courageous!

[Cassandra Jones]

An excellent book for writing memoir an absolute gold mine the companion CD contains 28 of the 40 meditations read by the author (sold separately)

[Michele]

This is an excellent book for reflecting on one's life!