{"id":3729,"date":"2025-04-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T10:56:21","slug":"restored-to-wholeness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turveyabbey.org.uk\/pilgrimage\/2025\/04\/01\/restored-to-wholeness\/benedictine-spirituality\/3729\/","title":{"rendered":"Restored to wholeness."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 28 word in my Lent lexicon is: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHOLENESS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lent is a time for acknowledging brokenness. It calls us to reflect on our fragmented lives and relationships and the effect these can have on our lives and our relationships. As Lent calls us to acknowledge our fragmentation it also calls us to seek the healing that will restore us to wholeness within ourselves and in our relationships and societies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In today\u2019s 1 reading Ezekiel presents us with a beautiful image of wholeness. It recalls the unity and the wholeness of the creation narratives when God\u2019s Spirit hovered over the waters bringing forth life in abundance. He shows us all of creation, held together by God, producing good things in abundance to sustain, nurture and heal all life:

\u201cAlong the river, on either bank, will grow every kind of fruit tree with leaves that never wither and fruit that never fails; they will bear new fruit every month, because this water comes from the sanctuary. And their fruit will be good to eat and the leaves medicinal.\u201d<\/em>

So many things in life can leave us fragmented and broken. We can learn to live with that, but in our hearts we know it\u2019s only a partial life, not the full and rich lives we\u2019re created for and called to. It leaves so much of us cut off, abandoned or ignored.

So we live with this unfulfilled desire to be healed and for our wholeness to be restored. In offering us this image of wholeness Ezekiel invites us bring our fragmented selves back to God seeking to be made whole again. It\u2019s requires humility to admit the brokenness, trust to ask for the healing we need and gratitude for the God who longs to make us whole again.

Where do you need God to restore you to holiness today?
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