{Lenten Reading} ~ One of my favourite Lenten books...

A Journey through Great Lent

I seem to remember Deb writing about this book

some years ago.

I am pretty sure I read this book in about year 2007 or so.

When I was in my white walled apartment with

the kitchen with white cupboards, black and white tile,

with a small area for my prayer corner...

That was a special place,

where I remember my calendar Icon of St. John of Kronstadt 

was lit by my clay lampada, 

my Bible and prayer books on a white dresser 

below it, a shelf with my icons with tea light candles

and a desk with other beautiful prayerful things.

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This is a small and gentle book

but it opened Lent to me in a real and new way.

I read a few pages of it recently and see why I loved it so much.

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It is so clear; simple, with a directness that rings 

truth without being abrasive or making one feel like a 

heel that should just go hide in a corner.

No: instead it invites one to get out of that corner

and seek God and see that heaven is Christ

and that to live in heaven begins now.

It helps one begin with seeing things as they are,

what we are in need of healing of,

and that our Heavenly Father calls us to Lent,

to fasting, to repentance, for our healing.

The book indeed to me is like

a call from our Heavenly Father to His love.

I have gotten a few more icons over the years;

but I do find that those first icons, that make the 

inner corner of this prayer corner,

are still most dear and treasured

and that this early book I read on Lent is still

one of the best ones for me to read.

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I highly recommend it.