Healing Troubled Hearts: Daily Spiritual Exercises [Paperback]

Lyn Holley Doucet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 30, 2005

Our wounds can keep us running from ourselves, from healing and from God s call. Negative voices within and without us drown out the simple sweet voice of Spirit. Perhaps this is the day you decide to stop for a while. Perhaps this is the day that you begin the most important retreat you will ever take. I will serve as Innkeeper, but God is the Retreat Master. from the Introduction

In this fifteen-week program, Healing Troubled Hearts calls us to take a break from our harried lives, to overcome the hurt of a lifetime and to embrace life renewed. Each day s entry begins with an inspirational quote and contains a meditation, suggestions for journaling or reflection, and ends with a prayer. This adaptable program works for groups or individuals.

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About the Author

LYN HOLLEY DOUCET is a retreat director and speaker active in spiritual direction and music ministry. She is the author of the award-winning Water From Stones: An Inner Journey and A Healing Walk with St. Ignatius: Finding God in Difficult Times. She lives in Maurice, Louisiana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 293 pages
• Publisher: St. Anthony Messenger Press; First Edition edition (January 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867166126
• ISBN-13: 978-0867166125
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,635,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Road Map for Prayer Journey, April 25, 2005

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This review is from: Healing Troubled Hearts: Daily Spiritual Exercises (Paperback)

Doucet has prepared a 15-week program of daily spiritual exercises focused on healing and adaptable to both individual and group use. The Group Workshop section provides detailed suggestions for getting started, setting ground rules, and using the sessions in community.

Daily sessions contain an opening quote from a contemporary author or from scripture, a brief personal reflection by the author, questions for reflection or journal writing, and a closing prayer. Early sessions focus on basics for beginning a prayer journey, but even those with a well developed prayer practice would benefit from a review of such exercises as the spiritual checkup and developing a personal lifeline. Healing is addressed directly in Week Nine, which reflects on scripture passages on the hemmorrhagic woman, the sick man Jesus cured on the Sabbath, the woman at the well, and Zacchaeus.

In each daily session, Doucet relates the gospel to life in today's world. She also touches on such issues as anger, depression, and negativity while emphasizing God's boundless love and the light of the Spirit.

1.0 out of 5 stars nothing, January 7, 2012

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